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Yes, We Have No Bananas
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Louis Prima
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There's a fruit store on our street
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It's run by a Greek.
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And he keeps good things to eat
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But you should hear him speak!
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When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
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He just "yes"es you to death, and as he takes your dough
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He tells you
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"Yes, we have no bananas
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We have-a no bananas today.
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We've string beans, and onions
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Cabbageses, and scallions,
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And all sorts of fruit and say
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We have an old fashioned to-mah-to
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A Long Island po-tah-to
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But yes, we have no bananas.
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We have no bananas today."
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Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
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"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
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When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
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Someone asked for "sparrow grass" and then the whole quartet
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All answered
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"Yes, we have no bananas
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We have-a no bananas today.
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Just try those coconuts
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Those walnuts and doughnuts
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There ain't many nuts like they.
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We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
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Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
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But yes, we have no bananas
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We have no bananas today."
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Yes, we are very sorry to inform you
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That we are entirely out of the fruit in question
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The afore-mentioned vegetable
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Bearing the cognomen "Banana".
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We might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable,
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But that is not the policy at this internationally famous green
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grocery.
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I should say not. No no no no no no no.
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But may we suggest that you sample our five o'clock tea
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Which we feel certain will tempt your pallet?
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However we regret that after a diligent search
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Of the premises
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By our entire staff
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We can positively affirm without fear of contradiction
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That our raspberries are delicious; really delicious
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Very delicious
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But we have no bananas today.
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Yes, we gotta no banana
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No banana
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We gotta no banana today.
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I sella you no banana.
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Hey, Marianna, you gotta no banana?
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Why this man, he no believe-a what I say.
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Now whatta you want mister?
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You wanna buy twelve for a quarter?
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No? well, just a oneofadozen?
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I'm-a gonna calla my daughter.
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Hey, Marianna
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You gotta piana
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Yes, banana, no
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No, yes, no bananas today
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We gotta no bananas.
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Yes, we gotta no bananas today.
Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera & T...
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