| 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 |