30,000 Pounds of Bananas - Harry Chapin Chords
Chords: G, C, Cm, F, Em, Dm, D
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G
It was just after dark when the truck started down
C Cm G
the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
F Em Dm G
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
F Em Dm G
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
G
He was a young driver,
C Cm
just out on his second job.
G
And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits
C Cm
for everyone in that coal-scarred city
G
where children play without despair
C Cm G
in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
G
He passed a sign that he should have seen,
C Cm G
saying "shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend."
C Cm
He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman
G
who was waiting at the journey's end.
C Cm
He started down the two mile drop,
G D
the curving road that wound from the top of the hill.
D D G
He was pushing on through the shortening miles that ran down to the depot.
G
Just a few more miles to go,
C Cm G
then he'd go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away.
G C Cm G
He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.
G C
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights
Cm G
delights went through him.
G
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
D
He said "Christ!"
G
It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now.
C Cm
He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide,
G
riding on his fear-hunched back
C Cm G
was every one of those yellow green
F
I'm telling you thirty....
G C Cm
He barely made the sweeping curve that led into the steepest grade.
G C Cm
And he missed the thankful passing bus at ninety miles an hour.
G D
And he said "God, make it a dream!"
F C G
as he rode his last ride down.
G D
And he said "God, make it a dream!"
F C G
as he rode his last ride down.
Dm
it was then he lost his head,
G
not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.
Dm
And he smeared for four hundred yards
G
along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania.
F
All those thirty.....
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