Harry Chapin - 30,000 Pounds of Bananas (Live) paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson 30,000 Pounds of Bananas (Live) - Harry Chapin



It was just after dark when the truck started down
The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand 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
Where children play without despair
In backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
Just about thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds (scream it again, John) .
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.
And the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights
Delights went through him.
His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down.
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
He said "Christ!"
It was funny how he had 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 telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand 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 ride down.
And he said "God, make it a dream!"
As he rode his last ride 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 slid for four hundred yards
Along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania.
All those thirty thousand 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 that sure must've been something.
Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas.
Of bananas. Just bananas. Thirty thousand pounds.
Of Bananas. not no driver now. Just bananas!"
From Greatest Stories Live: Ending number one
Yes, we have no bananas,
We have no bananas today
(Spoken: And if that wasn′t enough)
Yes, we have no bananas,
Bananas in Scranton, P A
From Greatest Stories Live: Ending #2:
A woman walks into her room where her child lies sleeping,
And when she sees his eyes are closed,
She sits there, silently weeping,
And though she lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania
She never ever eats ... Bananas
Not one of thirty thousand pounds ... of bananas



Writer(s): Harry Chapin


Harry Chapin - The Bottom Line Archive Series: (Live 1981)
Album The Bottom Line Archive Series: (Live 1981)
date de sortie
29-06-2015

1 The Audience Button (Live)
2 Poor Damn Fool (Intro) (Live)
3 Poor Damn Fool (Live)
4 Star Trippers (Live)
5 Taxi (Live)
6 Story of a Life - Live
7 I Miss America (Live) - Live
8 Mercenaries (Live) - Live
9 A Better Place to Be - Live
10 Mr. Tanner (Live)
11 W.O.L.D. (Live)
12 Mismatch (Live) - Live
13 Old Folkie - Live
14 Let Time Go Lightly (Live) - Live
15 Cat’s in the Cradle (Live)
16 Remember When the Music (Live) - Live
17 30,000 Pounds of Bananas (Live)
18 Sequel (Live) - Live
19 Up on the Shelf (Intro) - Live
20 Up on the Shelf - Live
21 If My Mary Were Here Intro (Live) - Live
22 If My Mary Were Here - Live
23 Bluesman (Live) - Live
24 Flowers Are Red Intro (Live) - Live
25 Flowers Are Red (Live) - Live
26 Halfway to Heaven (Live) - Live
27 Paint a Picture of Yourself (Live) - Live
28 Mail Order Annie - Live
29 Dreams Go By (Live)
30 Sniper Intro (Live) - Live
31 Sniper - Live
32 You Are the Only Song - Live
33 Circle (Live)




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