Yellow bird images are from Wikipedia, reproduced here under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Credits are as follows:
- Resident adult male yellow or mangrove warbler in mangroves, Costa Rica. Photographer Charles Sharp.
- Adult male Yellow Warbler. Wisconsin (USA). Photo uploaded to Flicker by Dysmorodrepanis.
- Yellow Warbler in Ontario, Canada © Geoff Clarke.
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Jamaican singer / songwriter. |
Yellow bird
High inna mango tree
Yellow bird
You sit all alone like me
Did your lady friend
Fly away again
That is very bad
Makes me feel so sad
You can fly away
In the sky away
You're much luckier than me.
The children’s song Yellow Bird has flown around many parts of the world! In the Caribbean island of Haiti it appeared in the late nineteenth century as a poem and a folk song about the beautiful lady known as “Choucoune”. The language is French and the music is mérengue. Following the Calypso Craze of the 1950’s many versions in English began to appear. As Val Serrant reminds us, ‘Trinidad is the land of Calypso’……
Performed and Arranged -
Recording used with kind permission
YELLOW BIRD