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YES! We Have No Bananas

Words and Music by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn - 1923

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C          F6	F	G7	C
C          F6	F	B          B7	E          Dm6
C          F6	F	G7	C
G	G6	Am6	G7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	-	-	-
D7	G7	C	C7
F	Fm	C	-
B	B7	E7	G7
C	F	C	C7
F	-	-	-          G7
C	-	C7         B7  Bb7	A7
D7	G7	C	-  (G7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

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 an -y thing, Ne -ver an -swers "no",

He just "yes -ses" you to death And as he takes your dough he tells you:

 

Chorus:

YES! We have no ba -na -nas.

We have no ba -na -nas to -day.

We've string beans and HON -ions, cab -BAH -ges and scal -lions

And all kinds of fruit and say.

We have an old fash -ioned to -MAH -to.

Long Is -land po -TAH -to.

But YES! we have no ba -na -nas.

We have no ban -na -nas to day.

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Click here for extra chorus lyrics from the original sheet music

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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