Yes! We Have No Bananas 1923

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 26 May 2002

There's a fruitstore on our street
it's run by a Greek
and he keeps good things to eat
but you should hear him speak;
when you ask him anything
Never answers 'No'
He just 'yesyes' you to death,
and as he takes your dough he tells you:

Yes! We have no bananas
we have no bananas today.
We've broad beans like BUNions
CaBAHges and HONions
and all kinds of fruit and say
We have an oldfashioned toMAHto
A nice Jersey poTAHto
But Yes! we have no bananas
We have no bananas today.

Yes! We have no bananas
we have no bananas today.
We've broad beans like BUNions
CaBAHges and HONions
and all kinds of fruit and say
We have an oldfashioned toMAHto
A nice Jersey poTAHto
But Yes! we have no bananas
We have no bananas today.

Bus'ness got so good with him
he wrote home to say
'Send me Pete and Nick and Jim,
I need help right away.'
When he got them in the store
there was fun, you bet
someone asked for 'Sparrowgrass'
and then the whole quartette all answered:

Yes! We have no bananas
we have no bananas today.
We've broad beans like BUNions
CaBAHges and HONions
and all kinds of fruit and say
We have an oldfashioned toMAHto
A nice Jersey poTAHto
But Yes! we have no bananas
We have no bananas today.

Yes! We have no bananas
we have no bananas today.
We've broad beans like BUNions
CaBAHges and HONions
and all kinds of fruit and say
We have an oldfashioned toMAHto
A nice Jersey poTAHto
But Yes! we have no bananas
We have no bananas today.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric line
bass
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Yes! We have No Bananas 1923
by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn
copyright MCMXXIII by Skidmore Music Co. Inc., New York
Selling Agents: Shapiro, Bernstein and Co. Inc., New York
For the UK etc; Lawrence Wright Music Co., London
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Sunday 26 May 2002 at 21.01
in association with Doug Grierson
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