CHAPIN, HARRY - "bananas" Tablature

From: Dan McIsaac <dmcisaac@home.com>
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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E
It was just after dark ...
A Am E
the hill that leads into ...
D A Bm E
Carrying thirty ...
D A Bm E
Carrying thirty ....

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

E
He passed a sign ...
A Am E
saying "shift to low gear...

He was thinking ...
A Am E
who was waiting ....
B7
He started down ....
E
the curving road that ....
A
He was pushing on through ....
E
Just a few more ...
A Am E
then he'd go home and ....
D A Bm E
and the smell of thirty ...
D A Bm E
Yes the smell of thirty ...

E A Am E
He was picking speed as the ...
E A
But he paid no heed as the ...
Am E
delights went ...
B7
His foot nudged the ....
E
But the pedal floored easy ...
B7
It was funny how he had named ...
E
He was trapped inside a dead-end ....
A Am E
was every one of ....
D A Bm E
I'm telling you thirty ...
D A Bm E
Yes, there were thirty ...

E A Am E
He barely made the sweeping curve .....
A Am E
And he missed the thankful ...
Bm G A E
And he said "God, make it a .....
Bm G A (hold the A)
And he said "God, make it a ...
A Am
And he sideswiped nineteen ...
E
clipped off thirteen ...
A Am
hit two houses, ....
E
and Blue-Crossed ....
B7 E
It was then he lost his head...
B7
And he slid for four ...
E
along the hill that leads ...
D A Bm E
On those thirty ...

E
You know the man who t...
A Am E
as it went up the hill ...
B7 E
he shrugged his shoulders, ....
(Spoken)
and this is ....
"Boy that sure must've ...
Just imagine thirty ...
D A Bm E
Yes, there were thirty ....
F F#
Of bananas. Just ....
G G# A
of Bananas. not no ...