Harry Chapin - 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas Lyrics
It was just after dark when the truck started downthe 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 fruitsfor everyone in that coal-scarred citywhere children play without despairin backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each dayabout 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