{"id":1486,"date":"2021-05-10T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:43:58","slug":"banana-boat-song-day-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/banana-boat-song-day-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana Boat Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by Harry Belafonte<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banana Boat Song\u00a0 1\/5 &#8211; Chords pictured are for Tenor Uke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-c.jpg\" width=\"15%\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-g.jpg\" width=\"15%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Day-o, [G] day-o.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> \u00a0 [C] Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>[C] Day, me say day, me say day, me say [G] day.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C] Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Well . . . . [C] Work all night on a drink of rum.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; color: #ff0000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home.\u00a0 [C]<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Stack banana &#8217;til de mornin&#8217; come.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; color: #ff0000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go [C] home [C]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Come, mister tally man, tally me banana.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; color: #ff0000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home. \u00a0 [C]<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come, mister tally man, tally me banana.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; color: #ff0000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go [C] home.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong> [C]Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go [C] home. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Day-o, [G] day-o.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> \u00a0 [C] Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>[C] Day, me say day, me say day, me say [G] day.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C] Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home. [C]<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>A beautiful bunch o&#8217; ripe banana.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home.<\/span><br \/>\n[C] Hide the deadly black tarantula.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go [C] home. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home.<\/span><br \/>\n[C] Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go [C] home. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Come, mister tally man, tally me banana.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me wan&#8217; go home.<\/span><br \/>\nCome, mister tally man, tally me banana.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me wan&#8217; go home.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Day, me say day-o.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Daylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<\/span> \u00a0 (slowing near end of song)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Harry Belafonte Banana Boat Song\u00a0 1\/5 &#8211; Chords pictured are for Tenor Uke [C] Day-o, [G] day-o. \u00a0 [C] Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home. [C] Day, me say day, me say day, me say [G] day. [C] Daylight come and me [G] wan&#8217; go home. Well &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/banana-boat-song-day-o\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Banana Boat Song<\/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":[23,120,95,133,126,13,116,117,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-chords","category-perflive","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","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=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}