Please dont take the following too seriously...................
Just a bit of fun this one. great for when you've had a few and you want a good sing alongBanana Boat Song
D A7 D
Day-oh Day-oh Daylight come an' I wanna go home
D A7 D
Day-oh Day-oh Daylight come an' I wanna go home
D
Six han' seven han' eight han' bunch
D A7 D
Daylight come an' I wanna go home
Six han' seven han' eight han' bunch
A7
Daylight come an' I wanna go home
D
Come mister tally man tally me banana
A7 D
Daylight come an' I wanna go home
Come mister tally man tally me banana
A7 D
Daylight come an' I wanna go home
D A7 D
Day-oh Day-oh Daylight come an' I wanna go home
D A7 D
Ah here are the full lyrics
Day-o, Day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Work all night on a drink a' rum
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana till the mornin' come
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home
A beautiful bunch a' ripe banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home
It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
And if it was god enough for the Kinks to record :roll: Only they did it like thisB7
Day-oh, Day-oh
B7 E7
Daylight come and I wanna go home
Day-oh, Day-oh
B7 E7
Daylight come and I wanna go home
B7 E7
Workin' on banana boat all day long
B7 E7
Daylight come and I wanna go home
B7 E7
Six boat, seven boat, eight boat job
B7 E7
Daylight come and I wanna go home
Day-oh, Day-oh
B7 E7
Daylight come and I wanna go home
And I wonder if anyone remembers Stan Freberg's brilliant parody version (Too loud man etc. etc.)
I would love to find the little black and white cartoon film that came with that. :)
enjoy,
Rod. :wink:
Be excellent to each other & party on dudes!
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LOL - Yeah I remember this from donkeys's years ago (come to think of it, wasn't "Little Donkey" one of his?
This is a song that's very much an in-joke between me and my daughter....we sing day-oh every time we go near the shed - going in the shed is a different matter entirely....they say there are no poisonous spiders in Britain, size of these buggers, they don't need to be poisonous - and any one of them has more arms than me and Kayleigh put together....
My favourite spider song has to be Entwhistle's "Boris" though - "Never more will he crawl round, he's embedded in the ground...." now that's how I like my spiders!!!!!
There's always a place for novelty songs - at Halloween, step-daughter's fancy dress party - I went as Herman Munster/ Frankenstein, when you're 6'5 options are kind of limited - I did "Monster Mash" (Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers, for all you trivia faans!!!) and it went down great - by the second chorus, the kids were all joining in....not exactly rock'n'roll, but a lot of fun....
So we've got "Octopus's Garden" "The Banana Boat Song" and "Smelly cat" (yes, the song Phoebe did in "Cheers", so my daughter informs me.....room for a few more yet.....
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Makes me want to order a tropical drink and play guitar!!!
This is one of 20 songs on my "Island Fever" disc I made many years ago... but I never thought of playing it on guitar until now.
Thanks!
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Music "Theory"? "It's not just a theory, it's the way it is!"
Jonny T.
Yeah good one Rodders,
It doesn't come on the radio much these days but when it does you can visualise that rabbit with extra sensative ears and that extra loud mouse in the recording studio doing the song. I think the mouse was based Speedygonzales and the rabbit based on Bugs Bunny.
I love the bit at the end where rabbit has had enough, sends the mouse out of the room who locks himself out. Then you hear running footsteps, breaking glass and the immortal line "I come through the window" from that loud mouse and then the rabbit's closing line "crazy man".
I suppose you had to be there eh Rod. Only us 40-50 plus GN members would have seen it when the animated puppets Freberg version was on TV.
There must be a DVD of it somewhere though.
LOL Chris
The guitar is all right John but you'll never make a living out of it! (John Lennon's Aunt Mimi)
