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.

3. 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!

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. Did your lady friend leave the nest again? That is very sad, make me feel so bad.

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

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