30,000 Pounds of Bananas - Harry Chapin Chords
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It was just after dark when the truck started down
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the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
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Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
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Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
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He was a young driver,
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just out on his second job.
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And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits
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for everyone in that coal-scarred city
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where children play without despair
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in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
G
He passed a sign that he should have seen,
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saying "shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend."
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He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman
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who was waiting at the journey's end.
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He started down the two mile drop,
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the curving road that wound from the top of the hill.
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He was pushing on through the shortening miles that ran down to the depot.
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Just a few more miles to go,
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then he'd go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away.
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He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.
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