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[C] I gotta fruit store on your street. My name is Mr Pete. And I keeps good things to eat, but [G] you should hear me speak!
[C] You can ask me anything, and I won’t tell you no.
[F] I’ll just answer “yes – yes – yes” and [G] then I’ll take your dough” and we sing . . .
<<< [C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>>
We’ve [F] string beans and [Fm] onions; Cah- [C] -BAH-ges and scallions, and [B7] all kinds of fruit to- [E] -day.
We [C] have old [F] fashioned [C] to MAH toes;
Long [F] Island po [G7] Tah toes, but we sing.
<<< [C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>>
[C] Business got so good you see that I wrote home today,
“Send me Nick, Pasquale, and Jim; [G] I need help right away.”
[C] When I got them to the store, there was fun, you bet. [F] Someone asked for bananas and [G] then the whole quartet sang . . .
<<< [C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>>
We got [F] little beans, and [Fm] big beans, and [C] red beans and [B7] white beans and [E] all kinds of beans today.
We [C] got old [F] fashioned [C] salami, we [F] even got Brooklyn [G7] pastrami; but
<<< [C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>>
Just [F] try those [Fm] coco-nuts; Those [C] walnuts and [B7] doughnuts. There [E] ain’t many nuts like they.
We’ll [C] sell you two [F] kinds of red [C] herring: Dark [F] brown, and [G7] ball-bearing, but
<<< [C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>>
Yes, we are very sorry to inform you that we are entirely out of the fruit in question. The afore-mentioned vegetable bearing the cognomen “Banana”.
We might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable, but that is not the policy at this internationally famous green grocery. I should say not. No no no no no no no.
But may we suggest that you sample our five o’clock tea
Which we feel certain will tempt your pallet?
However we regret that after a diligent search of the premises by our entire staff that we can positively affirm without fear of contradiction that our raspberries are delicious; really delicious . . Very delicious, but we sing
<<< [C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas. We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>>
