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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 any thing,  Never answers "no,"

He just "yesses" you to death,  And as he takes your dough he tells you:

 

Chorus:

YES!  We have no bananas.

We have no bananas today.

We've string beans and HONions, cabBAHges and scallions,

And all kinds of fruit and say.

We have an old fashioned toMAHto.

Long Island poTAHto.

But YES!  We have no bananas.

We have no bannanas to day.

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Performer Links:

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Listen to Harry Reser perform "Yes! We Have No Bananas" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com