Choucoune (song)

"Choucoune"
Song
LanguageHaitian Creole
English title"Yellow Bird"
Written1893
ComposerMichel Mauléart Monton
LyricistOswald Durand

"Choucoune" is a 19th-century Haitian song composed by Michel Mauléart Monton with lyrics from a poem by Oswald Durand. It was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century as "Yellow Bird". The exotica musician Arthur Lyman made the song a hit in 1961.

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