...YES! WE HAVE NO BANANAS... by Louis Prima
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*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: [Bb])
Intro:
[G7]
Chorus 1:
[C] [Bb7] [A7]
Oh yes, we have no bananas;
[D7] [G7] [C]
We have-a no ba-nanas, to-day.
[F] [Fm] [C]
We've got string beans and onions, and big juicy lemons,
[Em] [G7]
And all sorts of fruit and say;
[C] [F] [C]
We got an old fashioned to-mah-to,
[F] [D7] [G7]
A Long Island po-tah-to.
[C] [Bb7] [A7]
But yes, we have no bananas;
[D7] [G7] [C]
We have-a no ba-nanas, to-day.
Interlude:
[C]
Verse 1:
[C] [F] [C] [G7] [C]
There's a fruit store, on our street, who's name is Mr. Peach.
[C] [F] [C] [Em] [G7]
And he keeps good things to eat; but you should hear him speak!
[C] [F] [C] [G7] [C]
When you ask him anything; he never answers "no".
[G] [Gdim] [D7] [G7]
He just "yes-es" you to death, and then he takes your dough.
Chorus 2:
[C] [Bb7] [A7]
Oh yes, we have no bananas;
[D7] [G7] [C]
We have-a no ba-nanas, to-day.
[F] [Fm]
We've got a-little beans, and the bigger beans,
[C]
And a red beans, and the whiter beans,
[Em] [G7]
And all kinds of beans and say;
[C] [F] [C]
We got an old fashioned sa-lami;
[F] [D7] [G7]
We even got the Brooklyn pa-strami.
[C] [Bb7] [A7]
Oh yes, we no gotta da banana;
[D7] [G7] [C]
We no gotta da ba-nana to-day.
Solo:
[C] [A7], [D7] [G7] (x2)
Interlude:
[C]
Verse 2:
[C] [F] [C] [G7] [C]
Business got so good for him, that he wrote home to-day;
[C] [F] [C] [Em] [G7]
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right a-way."
[C] [F] [C] [G7] [C]
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
[G] [Gdim] [D7] [G7]
Someone asked for ba-nanas, and then the whole quart-et;
Chorus 3:
[C] [Bb7] [A7]
(Oh yes, we have no bananas),
[D7] [G7] [C]
We have-a no ba-nanas, to-day.
[F] [Fm] [C]
(We've got red beans), (and carrots), (and celery), (and olives),
[Em] [G7]
But we've got no bananas to-day.
[C] [F] [C], [F] [D7], [G7] (n.[C])
[C] [Bb7] [A7]
Oh yes, we no gotta da banana;
[D7] [G7] [C]
We no gotta da ba-nana to-day.
Outro:
[C] [D7], [C]
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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[G7] [C] [Bb7] [A7] [D7] [F] [Fm] [Em] [Gdim]
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
323000 x32010 x13131 x02223 xx0212 133211 133111 022000 xx3434
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2008 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)
