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30,000 Pounds of Bananas
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Harry Chapin
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It was just after dark when the truck started down The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas Carrying thirty thousand pounds Hit it big John Of bananasHe was a young driver Just out on his second job And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits For everyone in that coal scarred city Where children play without despairIn backyard slag piles and folks manage to eat each day About thirty thousand pounds of bananas Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds Scream it again, John Of bananasHe passed a sign that he should have seen Saying "Shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend." He was thinking perhaps about the warm breathed woman Who was waiting at the journey's end He started down the two mile drop The curving road that wound from the top of the hillHe was pushing on through the shortening miles That ran down to the depot Just a few more miles to go Then he'd go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away And the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananasHe was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights, below him But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights Delights went through him His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down But the pedal floored easy without a sound He said, "Christ"It was funny how he had named the only man Who could save him now He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide Riding on his fear hunched back Was everyone of those yellow green I'm telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of bananasHe barely made the sweeping curve That led into the steepest grade And he missed the thankful passing bus At ninety miles an hour And he said, "God, make it a dream" As he rode his last tread downHe said, "God, make it a dream" As he rode his last tread down And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars Clipped off thirteen telephone poles Hit two houses, bruised eight treesAnd blue crossed seven people It was then he lost his head Not to mention an arm or two before he stopped And he slid for four hundred yards Along the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania All those thirty thousand pounds of bananasYou know the man who told me about it on the bus As it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania He shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head And he saidAnd this is exactly what he said "Boy that sure must've been something Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas" Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas Of bananas, bananas, just bananas, thirty thousand pounds Of bananas, not no driver now, just bananas
Это интересно:Чаплин родился в семье среднего класса в Нью-Йорке, второй из четырех детей, которые также включены будущие музыканты Том и Стив . Его родители были Жанна Элспет ( урожденная Берк) и Джим Чапин , легендарный ударник. Он был английский родословную, его пра-бабушки и дедушки с иммигрировал в конце 19-го века. Его родители развелись в 1950 году, с сохранением содержания под стражей Элспет их четырех... продолжение
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