歌曲名 30,000 Lbs Of Bananas 歌手名 Harry Chapin

作词：Harry Chapin+Sandy Chapin

作曲：Harry Chapin+Sandy Chapin

It was just after dark

When the truck started down

The hill that leads into

Scranton Pennsylvania

Carrying 30 000 pounds of bananas

Carrying 30 000 pounds hit it Big John

Of bananas

He was a young driver

Just out on his second job

And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits

For everyone in that coal-scarred city

When children play without despair

In backyard slagpiles

And folks manage to eat each day

About 30 000 pounds of bananas

Yes just about 30 000 pounds scream it again John

Of bananas

He passed a sign that he should have seen

Saying Shift to low gear

A fifty dollar fine my friend

He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman

Who was waiting at the journey's end

He started down the two mile drop

The curving road that wound from the top of the hill

He was pushing on through the shortening miles

That ran down to the depot

Just a few more miles to go

Then he'd go home and have her ease his long cramped day away

From the smell of 30 000 pounds of bananas

Yes the smell of 30 000 pounds of bananas

He was picking up speed as the city spread

Its twinkling lights below him

But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts

Of the night's delights went through him

His foot nursed the brakes to slow him down

But the pedal floored easy without a sound

He said Christ

It was funny how he named

The only man who could save him now

He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide

Riding on his fear-hunched back

Was every one of those yellow-green

I'm tellin' you 30 000 pounds of bananas

Yes there were 30 000 pounds of bananas

He barely made the sweeping curve

That led into the steepest grade

And he missed the thankful passing bus

At ninety miles an hour

And he said God make it a dream

As he rode his last rack down

He said God make it a dream

As he rode his last rack down

And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars

Clipped off thirteen telephone poles

Hit two houses bruised eight trees

And Blue Crossed seven people

It was then he lost his head

Not to mention an arm or two before he stopped

And he smeared for four hundred yards

Along the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania

Almost 30 000 pounds

Of bananas

You know the man who told me about it on the bus

As it went up the hill out of Scranton Pennsylvania

He shrugged his shoulders He shook his head

And he said and this is exactly what he said

Boy it sure must have been something

Just imagine 30 000 pounds of bananas

Yes there were 30 000 pounds

Of mashed bananas

Of bananas

Of bananas

Just bananas

30 000 pounds

Of bananas

Not no driver now

Just bananas