Harry Chapin - 30,000 Lbs. of Bananas paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson 30,000 Lbs. of Bananas - Harry Chapin



It was just after dark
When the truck started down
The hill that leads into
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Carrying 30, 000 pounds of bananas
Carrying 30, 000 pounds (hit it, Big John!)
(Of bananas)
He was a young driver
Just out on his second job
And he was carrying the next day′s pasty fruits
For everyone in that coal-scarred city
When children play without despair
In backyard slagpiles
And folks manage to eat each day
About 30, 000 pounds of bananas
Yes, just about 30, 000 pounds (scream it again, John!)
(Of bananas)
He passed a sign that he should have seen
Saying "Shift to low gear.
A fifty dollar fine, my friend!"
He was thinking, perhaps, about the warm-breathed woman
Who was waiting at the journey's end
He started down the two mile drop
The curving road that wound from the top of the hill.
He was pushing on through the shortening miles
That ran down to the depot.
Just a few more miles to go.
Then he′d go home and have her ease his long cramped day away
From the smell of 30, 000 pounds of bananas.
Yes, the smell of 30, 000 pounds of bananas.
He was picking up speed as the city spread
Its twinkling lights below him.
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts
Of the night's delights went through him.
His foot nursed the brakes to slow him down,
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
He said, "Christ!"
It was funny how he named
The only man who could save him now.
He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide.
Riding on his fear-hunched back
Was every one of those yellow-green
I'm tellin′ ya, 30, 000 pounds of bananas
Yes, there were 30, 000 pounds of bananas.
He barely made the sweeping curve
That led into the steepest grade
And he missed the thankful passing bus
At ninety miles an hour!
And he said, "God, make it a dream!"
As he rode his last rack down.
He said, "God, make it a dream!"
As he rode his last rack down.
And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars
Clipped off thirteen telephone poles
Hit two houses, bruised eight trees,
And Blue Crossed seven people.
It was then he lost his head,
Not to mention an arm or two, before he stopped.
And he smeared for four hundred yards
Along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Almost 30, 000 pounds
Of bananas.
You know, the man who told me about it on the bus
As it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He shrugged his shoulders. He shook his head.
And he said (and this is exactly what he said)
"Boy, it sure must have been something.
Just imagine 30, 000 pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were 30, 000 pounds
Of mashed bananas."
Of bananas
Just bananas
Thirty pounds
Of bananas
Not no driver now
Just bananas!



Writer(s): Harry Chapin


Harry Chapin - The Elektra Collection (1971-1978)
Album The Elektra Collection (1971-1978)
date de sortie
09-10-2015

1 Could You Put Your Light On, Please
2 Greyhound
3 Everybody's Lonely
4 Sometime, Somewhere Wife
5 Empty
6 Taxi
7 Any Old Kind Of Day
8 Dogtown
9 Same Sad Singer
10 Sunday Morning Sunshine
11 Sniper
12 And The Baby Never Cries
13 Burning Herself
14 Barefoot Boy
15 A Better Place To Be
16 Circle
17 Woman Child
18 Winter Song
19 Short Stories
20 W.O.L.D.
21 Song For Myself
22 Song Man
23 Changes
24 They Call Her Easy
25 Mr. Tanner
26 Mail Order Annie
27 There's Alot Of Lonely People Tonight
28 Old College Avenue
29 Cat's In The Cradle
30 I Wanna Learn A Love Song
31 Shooting Star
32 30,000 Lbs. of Bananas
33 She Sings Without Words
34 What Made America Famous?
35 Vacancy
36 Halfway To Heaven
37 Six String Orchestra
38 Dreams Go By
39 Tangled Up Puppet
40 Star Tripper
41 Babysitter
42 Someone Keeps Calling My Name
43 The Rock
44 Sandy
45 Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails
46 Bummer
47 Stop Singing These Sad Songs
48 On the Road to Kingdom Come
49 The Parade's Still Passing By
50 The Mayor of Candor Lied
51 Laugh Man
52 Corey's Coming
53 If My Mary Were Here
54 Fall In Love With Him
55 Caroline
56 Roll Down the River
57 Dance Band On The Titanic
58 Why Should People Stay The Same
59 My Old Lady
60 We Grew Up A Little Bit
61 Bluesman
62 Country Dreams
63 I Do It For You, Jane
64 I Wonder What Happened To Him
65 Paint A Picture Of Yourself (Michael)
66 Mismatch
67 Mercenaries
68 Manhood
69 One Light In A Dark Valley (An Imitation Spiritual)
70 There Was Only One Choice
71 Dancin' Boy
72 If You Want to Feel
73 Poor Damned Fool
74 I Wonder What Would Happen to This World
75 Jenny
76 It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains
77 Why Do Little Girls
78 Flowers Are Red (Edit)
79 Somebody Said




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