From: Dan McIsaac 
Subject: c/chapin_harry/bananas.crd
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:26:48 -0800

Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas
By: Harry Chapin
>From the album: Verities and Balderdash (1974)


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It was just after dark ...
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the hill that leads into ...
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Carrying thirty ...
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Carrying thirty ....

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He was a young driver...
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And he was carrying the ...
    B7
for everyone in that ...
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where children play ...
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in backyard slag-piles and ....
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about thirty thousand ....
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Yes, just about thirty ....

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He passed a sign ...
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saying "shift to low gear...

He was thinking ...
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who was waiting ....
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He started down ....
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the curving road that ....
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He was pushing on through ....
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Just a few more ...
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then he'd go home and ....
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and the smell of thirty ...
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Yes the smell of thirty ...

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He was picking speed as the ...
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But he paid no heed as the ...
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delights went ...
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His foot nudged the ....
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But the pedal floored easy ...
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It was funny how he had named ...
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He was trapped inside a dead-end ....
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was every one of ....
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I'm telling you thirty ...
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Yes, there were thirty ...

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He barely made the sweeping curve .....
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And he missed the thankful ...
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And he said "God, make it a .....
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And he said "God, make it a ...
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And he sideswiped nineteen ...
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clipped off thirteen ...
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hit two houses, ....
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and Blue-Crossed ....
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It was then he lost his head...
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And he slid for four ...
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along the hill that leads ...
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On those thirty ...

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You know the man who t...
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as it went up the hill ...
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he shrugged his shoulders, ....
(Spoken)
and this is ....
"Boy that sure must've ...
Just imagine thirty ...
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Yes, there were thirty ....
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Of bananas. Just ....
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of Bananas. not no ...