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Lyrics for Thirty Thousand Pounds Of Bananas by Harry Chapin:
| | | Artist: | Harry Chapin |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Thirty Thousand Pounds Of Bananas | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 101 | | | | Lyrics: | It was just after dark when the truck started down
Tthe hill that leads into Scranton
Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds
(hit it Big John) .
He was a young driver, just out on his second job.
And
he was carrying the next day's tasty fruits
For everyone in that coal-scarred city
Where
children play without despair
In backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
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 l | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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