Calypso Calypso A style of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago. The African-Caribbean influences include a strong beat, syncopated rhythms and percussion and lilting harmonies.

Yellow bird Yellow bird, up high in banana tree. Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.

Did your lady friend leave the nest again Did your lady friend leave the nest again? That is very sad, make me feel so bad. You can fly away, in the sky away You more lucky than me!

Wish that I was a yellow bird, I fly away with you Wish that I was a yellow bird, I fly away with you. But I am not a yellow bird, So here I sit, nothing else to do.

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree Yellow bird, up high in banana tree. Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me. Did your lady friend leave the nest again? That is very sad, make me feel so bad.

You can fly away, in the sky away You more lucky than me!

Coda: Just fly away, yellow bird. Vocabulary unison Harmony solo syncopation In one voice (everyone singing the same notes Music with two or more notes that makes a pleasing sound One performer The accent is on the weak beat