{"id":11268,"date":"2022-06-24T04:01:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T04:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2025-09-23T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:40:16","slug":"we-have-no-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/we-have-no-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes! We Have no Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"

VIEW SHEET MUSIC<\/a> – – – LISTEN TO SONG ON YOUTUBE<\/a><\/p>\n

[C]\u00a0 I gotta fruit store on your street.\u00a0 My name is Mr Pete.\u00a0 And I keeps good things to eat,\u00a0 but [G] you should hear me speak!
\n[C] You can ask me anything, and I won’t tell you no.
\n[F] I’ll just answer\u00a0 “yes – yes – yes” and [G] then I’ll take your dough” \u00a0<\/span> and we sing .<\/span> . .<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

<<<\u00a0<\/span>[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
\n[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>><\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve [F] string beans and [Fm] onions; <\/span>Cah- [C] -BAH-ges<\/em> and scallions, <\/span><\/span>and [B7] all kinds of fruit to- [E] -day.
\n<\/span>We [C] have old [F] fashioned [C] to MAH toes;
\n<\/em>Long [F] Island po [G7] Tah toes,\u00a0<\/em><\/span> but we sing.<\/span><\/p>\n

<<<\u00a0<\/span>[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
\n[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>><\/span><\/p>\n

[C] Business got so good you see that I wrote home today,<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n“Send me Nick, Pasquale, and Jim;\u00a0\u00a0 [G] I need help right away.”
\n[C] <\/span><\/strong>When I got them to the store, there was fun, you bet.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>[F] Someone asked for bananas and [G] then the whole quartet<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 sang . . .
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<<< <\/span>[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
\n[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>><\/span><\/p>\n

We got [F] little beans, and [Fm] big beans, and [C] red beans and [B7] white beans and [E] all kinds of beans today.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>We [C] got old [F] fashioned [C] salami,\u00a0 we [F] even got Brooklyn [G7] pastrami;<\/span> but
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<<< <\/span>[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
\n[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>><\/span><\/p>\n

Just [F] try those [Fm] coco-nuts; <\/strong><\/span>Those [C] walnuts and [B7] doughnuts<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 There [E] ain’t many nuts like they.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nWe’ll [C] sell you two [F] kinds of red [C] herring:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>Dark [F] brown, and [G7] ball-bearing, <\/strong><\/span><\/span>but<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<<<\u00a0<\/span>[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
\n[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, we are very sorry to inform you that we are entirely out of the fruit in question.\u00a0 The afore-mentioned vegetable bearing the cognomen “Banana”.<\/span>
\nWe might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable, but that is not the policy at this internationally famous green grocery.\u00a0\u00a0 I should say not. No no no no no no no.<\/span>
\nBut may we suggest that you sample our five o’clock tea<\/span>
\nWhich we feel certain will tempt your pallet?<\/span>
\nHowever we regret that after a diligent search of the premises by our entire staff that we can positively affirm without fear of contradiction that our raspberries are delicious; really delicious . . Very delicious, <\/span>but\u00a0 we sing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<<<\u00a0<\/span>[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day.
\n[C] Yes, we [F] have [C] no bananas.\u00a0 We [D7] have no ba- [G7] -nanas to [C] day. >>><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VIEW SHEET MUSIC – – – LISTEN TO SONG ON YOUTUBE [C]\u00a0 I gotta fruit store on your street.\u00a0 My name is Mr Pete.\u00a0 And I keeps good things to eat,\u00a0 but [G] you should hear me speak! [C] You can ask me anything, and I won’t tell you no. … CLICK TO VIEW SONGYes! We Have no Bananas<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}