Great White Way Orchestra with Billy Murray -YesWeHaveNoBananas (Silver/Cohn), Victor 1923<br />---------------------------------------------------<br />YES ! WE HAVE NO BANANAS<br />From the show "Make It Snappy" <br />(Frank Silver / Irving Cohn)<br /><br />There's a fruit store on our street<br />It's run by a Greek.<br />And he keeps good things to eat<br />But you should hear him speak!<br />When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".<br />He just "yes"es you to death, and as he takes your dough<br />He tells you<br />"Yes, we have no bananas<br />We have-a no bananas today.<br />We've string beans, and onions<br />Cabbageses, and scallions,<br />And all sorts of fruit and say<br />We have an old fashioned to-mah-to<br />A Long Island po-tah-to<br />But yes, we have no bananas.<br />We have no bananas today."<br /><br />Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,<br />"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."<br />When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.<br />Someone asked for "sparrow grass" and then the whole quartet<br />All answered<br />"Yes, we have no bananas<br />We have-a no bananas today.<br />Just try those coconuts<br />Those walnuts and doughnuts<br />There ain't many nuts like they.<br />We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,<br />Dark brown, and ball-bearing.<br />But yes, we have no bananas<br />We have no bananas today."<br /><br />Yes, we are very sorry to inform you<br />That we are entirely out of the fruit in question<br />The afore-mentioned vegetable<br />Bearing the cognomen "Banana".<br />We might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable,<br />But that is not the policy at this internationally famous green <br />grocery.<br />I should say not. No no no no no no no.<br />But may we suggest that you sample our five o'clock tea<br />Which we feel certain will tempt your pallet?<br />However we regret that after a diligent search <br />Of the premises<br />By our entire staff<br />We can positively affirm without fear of contradiction<br />That our raspberries are delicious; really delicious<br />Very delicious<br />But we have no bananas today.<br /><br />Yes, we gotta no banana<br />No banana<br />We gotta no banana today.<br />I sella you no banana.<br />Hey, Marianna, you gotta no banana?
