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Yellow Bird (WORD)
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This song was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, but the english lyrics have no connection with the narrative of the Durand poem. The English version of Choucoune: Yellow Bird, first appeared on the album Calypso Holiday, a 1957 release by the Norman Luboff Choir, Norman Luboff having arranged the song in the calypso style that become popular in the English-speaking world in the mid-1950s.