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. Performance track:

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#

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.

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#

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

      B A G F#

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#