Yellow Bird Chords
by Chris Isaak
Yellow Bird by Chris Isaak is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D A D
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
D A D
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Em D
Did you lady friend leave the nest again?
A D
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
Em D
You can fly away, in the sky away.
A D
Your more lucky than me.
verse 2:
D A D
I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me today.
D A T
hey're all the same those pretty girls.
D
Take tenderness, then they fly away.
D A D A D
Yellow Bird, yellow bird.
Em D
Did you lady friend leave the nest again?
A D
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
Em D
You can fly away, in the sky away.
A D
Your more lucky than me.
verse 3:
D A D
Wish that I were a yellow bird, I'd fly away with you.
A
But I am not a yellow bird, So here I sit.
D
Nothing I can do.
D
Yellow bird, yellow bird.