Bananas

This is played as a Blue Gras Talking Blues

G C D G

G g                                         

We were eating Banana Custard

C c                 

Back in ‘58

D                                                      

My Grand Mother Did the strangest thing

As she said doesn’t this taste great

G                         C                             

From her mouth and onto her spoon came

C                             

A little Banana Stalk

And then to my surprise

D 

She put it on my plate next to the folk

G C D G

Bananas Bananas Bananas Bananas

G          C           D             G

Bananas Bananas Bananas Bananas

I was about two and a half years old

And I thought Jolly Gee

Look what my kind Grandmother

Has given to me

I scooped it on to my spoon

And was about to shovel it in

When suddenly she hit my hand

She said you could die of that sort of thing

I can’t say that I understood

But boy did my hand sting

I thought she’d given me a present

It was the strangest kind of thing

I tried to explain to my Dad

What My Grand Mother had done

But I don’t think he could understand his

Crying little son

C                                    G

Oh she must have been Bananas

D                 G

Or mad any way

C                   G

It’s the only explanation

D                        G

To explain the story away

Now all these years have past

Since I was two and a half

But I can’t say that this story ever made me laugh

And she lived way far across the sea

So we didn’t had to talk

But every time I saw her

I remembered that little Banana Stalk

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