Down Where The Big Bananas Grow 1909

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 27 Jun 2004

Down where the tropic rivers flow,
to meet the Gulf of Mexico,
where the pelican flies
'neath the bright blue skies,
and the mocking bird sings all day;
There's a little gal who's as dear to me,
as the cocoanut to the Chimpanzee,
and her happy smile haunts me all the while,
that I'm wand'ring far away;
Tho' my tropical maid is of a dusky shade,
for any fair skinned lady
I would never trade;
and when home I go with my old banjo,
I will sing this serenade:

Down where the big bananas grow,
and where it's summer all the time,
I'd rather be there than anywhere,
in any old other clime;
So come my little honey
and we'll happy be,
and we will find a tree
to shelter you and me,
Down where the big bananas grow;
and where it's summer all the time.

Down where the big bananas grow,
and where it's summer all the time,
I'd rather be there than anywhere,
in any old other clime;
So come my little honey
and we'll happy be,
and we will find a tree
to shelter you and me,
Down where the big bananas grow;
and where it's summer all the time.

At times when I am feeling blue,
Kind of homesick like and love sick too,
I am heavy at heart and the tear drops start
and I'm way down in the mouth,
Oh, I wish I'd never come away so far,
and I want to get back
where the home folks are.
And I wish poor me once again could be,
On a boat that's sailing south.
'Neath the tropical moon
I long to croon and spoon,
and I will surely die
if I don't get there soon;
When I'll live at ease 'mid banana trees
and where every month is June:

Down where the big bananas grow,
and where it's summer all the time,
I'd rather be there than anywhere,
in any old other clime;
So come my little honey
and we'll happy be,
and we will find a tree
to shelter you and me,
Down where the big bananas grow;
and where it's summer all the time.

Down where the big bananas grow,
and where it's summer all the time,
I'd rather be there than anywhere,
in any old other clime;
So come my little honey
and we'll happy be,
and we will find a tree
to shelter you and me,
Down where the big bananas grow;
and where it's summer all the time.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Down Where The Big Bananas Grow 1909
Music by Ted S. Barron
Lyrics by Louis Weslyn
© MCMIX by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 27 June 2004 at 15.55
in association with Doug Grierson
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