Karaoke - 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas-Karaoke

[ti:30,000 Pounds Of Bananas (In the Style of Harry Chapin) {Karaoke Lead Vocal Version}] [ar:The Karaoke Channel] [al:The Karaoke Channel - The Best Of Rock Vol. - 77] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Karaoke - 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas - Karaoke [00:11.76]It was just after dark when the truck started down [00:14.35] [00:14.95]The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania [00:19.08] [00:20.74]Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas [00:27.11] [00:28.43]Carrying thirty thousand pounds [00:31.64]Hit it big John [00:32.49] [00:33.11]Of bananas [00:37.10] [00:39.42]He was a young driver [00:41.69] [00:42.49]Just out on his second job [00:44.78]And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits [00:47.74] [00:48.90]For everyone in that coal scarred city [00:52.08]Where children play without despair [00:55.22]In backyard slag piles and folks manage to eat each day [00:59.47] [01:00.95]About thirty thousand pounds of bananas [01:07.46] [01:08.17]Yes just about thirty thousand pounds [01:11.14] [01:11.68]Scream it again John [01:13.29]Of bananas [01:14.95] [01:20.08]He passed a sign that he should have seen [01:22.82]Saying Shift to low gear a fifty dollar fine my friend [01:27.83] [01:29.09]He was thinking perhaps about the warm breathed woman [01:32.22]Who was waiting at the journey's end [01:34.30] [01:35.55]He started down the two mile drop [01:38.41]The curving road that wound from the top of the hill [01:42.82] [01:44.63]He was pushing on through the shortening miles [01:47.42] [01:47.95]That ran down to the depot [01:49.76] [01:50.67]Just a few more miles to go [01:52.87] [01:53.69]Then he'd go home and have her ease his long cramped day away [01:58.10] [01:59.35]And the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas [02:06.24] [02:07.23]Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas [02:14.88] [02:21.49]He was picking speed as the city spread it's twinkling lights below him [02:28.07] [02:30.01]But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights [02:33.45] [02:34.48]Delights went through him [02:36.63] [02:38.53]His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down [02:41.17]But the pedal floored easy without a sound [02:43.98]He said Christ [02:45.37] [02:46.97]It was funny how he had named the only man [02:50.53]Who could save him now [02:52.32] [02:53.90]He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide [02:56.66]Riding on his fear hunched back [02:59.44]Was everyone of those yellow green [03:01.84] [03:04.25]I'm telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas [03:11.19]Yes there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas [03:17.76] [03:23.90]He barely made the sweeping curve [03:26.45]That led into the steepest grade [03:30.06] [03:34.02]And he missed the thankful passing bus [03:36.71]At ninety miles an hour [03:40.19] [03:41.29]And he said God make it a dream [03:45.47] [03:46.73]As he rode his last tread down [03:50.58] [03:51.78]He said God make it a dream [03:55.80] [03:56.77]As he rode his last tread down [04:01.10] [04:02.09]And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars [04:04.89]Clipped off thirteen telephone poles [04:07.01] [04:07.53]Hit two houses bruised eight trees [04:09.64]And blue crossed seven people [04:11.89]It was then he lost his head [04:13.80] [04:14.33]Not to mention an arm or two before he stopped [04:17.82] [04:23.69]And he slid for four hundred yards [04:26.12]Along the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania [04:31.37] [04:32.53]All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas [04:44.50] [04:54.51]You know the man who told me about it on the bus [04:57.73]As it went up the hill out of Scranton Pennsylvania [05:02.08] [05:04.09]He shrugged his shoulders he shook his head [05:07.10]And he said [05:07.82] [05:09.06]And this is exactly what he said [05:10.73] [05:13.63]Boy that sure must've been something [05:17.92] [05:18.84]Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas [05:24.02] [05:25.44]Yes there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas [05:35.03] [05:39.86]Of bananas of bananas just bananas thirty thousand pounds [05:50.32] [05:51.11]Of bananas not no driver now just bananas