Yes! We Have No Bananas
Yes! We Have No Bananas | |
Frank Silver, Irving Cohn, 1923
| There's a fruit store 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 'yesses' you to death And as he takes your dough he tells you: Chorus: Yes! We have no bananas, We have no bananas today. We've string beans and honions, Cabbahges and scallions And all kinds of fruit and say We have an old fashioned tomahto, Long Island Potahto But yes! We have no bananas, We have no bananas today. |
2. Bus'ness got's 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 'Sparrow Grass' And then the whole Quartette all answered: Chorus: |