1. 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.

2. Yellow bird
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree. Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Performance track:

3. B A
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! G F# B A G F#

4. 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.

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

6. B A
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! G F# B A G F#

7. 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

8. B A G F#

9. Recorder descant B A
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! G F# B A G F#