30,000 Pounds Of Bananas [In the Style of Harry Chapin] (Karaoke Lead Vocal Version)-The Karaoke Channel

[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] [00:00.91]30,000 Pounds Of Bananas [In the Style of Harry Chapin] (Karaoke Lead Vocal Version) - The Karaoke Channel (卡拉OK频道) [00:02.13] [00:11.48]It was just after dark when the truck started down [00:14.07] [00:14.67]The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania [00:18.80] [00:20.46]Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas [00:26.83] [00:28.15]Carrying thirty thousand pounds [00:31.36]Hit it big John [00:32.21] [00:32.83]Of bananas [00:36.82] [00:39.14]He was a young driver [00:41.41] [00:42.21]Just out on his second job [00:44.50]And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits [00:47.46] [00:48.62]For everyone in that coal scarred city [00:51.80]Where children play without despair [00:54.95]In backyard slag piles and folks manage to eat each day [00:59.20] [01:00.68]About thirty thousand pounds of bananas [01:07.19] [01:07.90]Yes just about thirty thousand pounds [01:10.87] [01:11.41]Scream it again John [01:13.02]Of bananas [01:14.67] [01:19.80]He passed a sign that he should have seen [01:22.54]Saying Shift to low gear a fifty dollar fine my friend [01:27.55] [01:28.81]He was thinking perhaps about the warm breathed woman [01:31.94]Who was waiting at the journey's end [01:34.02] [01:35.27]He started down the two mile drop [01:38.13]The curving road that wound from the top of the hill [01:42.54] [01:44.35]He was pushing on through the shortening miles [01:47.14] [01:47.67]That ran down to the depot [01:49.48] [01:50.39]Just a few more miles to go [01:52.59] [01:53.41]Then he'd go home and have her ease his long cramped day away [01:57.83] [01:59.08]And the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas [02:05.97] [02:06.96]Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas [02:14.61] [02:21.22]He was picking speed as the city spread it's twinkling lights below him [02:27.80] [02:29.74]But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights [02:33.18] [02:34.21]Delights went through him [02:36.36] [02:38.26]His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down [02:40.90]But the pedal floored easy without a sound [02:43.71]He said Christ [02:45.10] [02:46.70]It was funny how he had named the only man [02:50.26]Who could save him now [02:52.05] [02:53.63]He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide [02:56.39]Riding on his fear hunched back [02:59.16]Was everyone of those yellow green [03:01.56] [03:03.97]I'm telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas [03:10.91]Yes there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas [03:17.48] [03:23.62]He barely made the sweeping curve [03:26.17]That led into the steepest grade [03:29.78] [03:33.74]And he missed the thankful passing bus [03:36.43]At ninety miles an hour [03:39.91] [03:41.01]And he said God make it a dream [03:45.19] [03:46.45]As he rode his last tread down [03:50.30] [03:51.50]He said God make it a dream [03:55.52] [03:56.49]As he rode his last tread down [04:00.82] [04:01.81]And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars [04:04.62]Clipped off thirteen telephone poles [04:06.74] [04:07.26]Hit two houses bruised eight trees [04:09.37]And blue crossed seven people [04:11.62]It was then he lost his head [04:13.53] [04:14.06]Not to mention an arm or two before he stopped [04:17.55] [04:23.42]And he slid for four hundred yards [04:25.85]Along the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania [04:31.10] [04:32.26]All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas [04:44.23] [04:54.24]You know the man who told me about it on the bus [04:57.46]As it went up the hill out of Scranton Pennsylvania [05:01.81] [05:03.82]He shrugged his shoulders he shook his head [05:06.83]And he said [05:07.55] [05:08.79]And this is exactly what he said [05:10.46] [05:13.36]Boy that sure must've been something [05:17.64] [05:18.56]Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas [05:23.74] [05:25.16]Yes there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas [05:34.75] [05:39.58]Of bananas of bananas just bananas thirty thousand pounds [05:50.04] [05:50.83]Of bananas not no driver now just bananas