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30000 Pounds Of Bananas

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Harry Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer and songwriter. Chapin's debut album, Heads and Tales (1972), was a success thanks to the single "Taxi". His follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs, was less successful; but his third, Short Stories, was a major success. Verities & Balderdash, released soon after, was even more successful, bolstered by the chart-topping hit single "Cat's in the Cradle". He also wrote and performed a Broadway musical, The Night That Made America Famous.

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Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas

[Verse]
C C7
It was just after dark when the truck started down the
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hill that leads Into Scranton Pennsylvania, carrying
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30 thousand pounds of bananas, Carrying 30 thousand pounds
C C7 F
of bananas. He was a young driver just out on his
Fm C
second job, and he was carrying the next day’s pasty fruit for
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ev’ry-one in that coal scarred city where children play without despair
F Fm C
in backyard slag piles, and people manage to eat each day
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about 30 thousand pounds of bananas,
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yes, just about 30 thousand pounds of bananas.

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He passed a sign that he should have seen, saying “Shift to low gear or
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fifty dollar fine my friend”. He was thinking perhaps about the
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warm breath woman who was waiting at the journeys end. He
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started down the 2 mile drop, the curving road that wound
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from the top of the hill. He was pushing on through the
C
short’ning miles that ran down to the depot; just a few more miles to
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go then he’d go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away
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and the smell of 30 thousand pounds of bananas,
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yes the smell of 30 thousand pounds of bananas.

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He was picking up speed as the cities spread its twinkling
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lights below him. But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the
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night’s delights went through him. His foot nursed the brake to slow
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him down but the pedal floored easy without a sound. He said “Christ”
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it was funny how he named the only man who could save him now
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he was trapped inside a deadend hell slide riding on his
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fear hunched backed was er’ry one of those yellow green,
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I’m telling you 30 thousand pounds of bananas,
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yes there were 30 thousand pounds of bananas.

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He barely made the sweeping curve that led into the steepest grade.
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And he missed the thankful passing bus at 90 miles an hour.

And he said
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“God make it a dream” as he rode his last ride down, he said
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“God make it a dream” as he rode his last ride down. And he
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side-swiped nineteen neat parked cars, clipped off thirteen
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telephone poles, hit two houses, bruised eight trees and
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Blue Crossed seven people, it was then that he lost his head,
E
Not to mention an arm or two before he stopped. And he
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Smeared for four hundred yards along the hills that leads into
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Scranton Pennsylvania,

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all those 30 thousand pounds of bananas
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You know the man who told me about it on the bus, as it
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went up the hill out of Scranton Pennsylvania,
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he shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head and he said,

(spoken) and this is exactly what he said. “Boy it sure must have been

something. Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas
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(sung) Yes there where 30 thousand pounds
E
of mashed bananas.

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Of bananas 30 thousand pounds of bananas
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Got no driver now just bananaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa