Banana Boat (day O) Lyrics
Day-O (Banana Boat Song)
Artist: Harry Belafonte (peak Billboard position
# 5 in 1957)
Words and Music by Harry Belafonte, Lord Burgess, and Bill
Attaway
Based on a Jamaican folk song
Other versions in 1957- Tarriers
(#4); Fontane Sisters (#13); Steve Lawrence
(#18); Sarah Vaughan (# 19); and
Stan Freberg (#25)
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go
home
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say
day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Work all night on a
drink a'rum
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Stack banana till thee
morning come
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr. Tally Mon,
tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr. Tally Mon,
tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
It's six foot,
seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Six
foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go
home)
Day, he say day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan' go
home)
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say
day
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
A
beautiful bunch a'ripe banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Hide
thee deadly black tarantula
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
It's
six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go
home)
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan'
go home)
Day, he say day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan' go
home)
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say
day
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr.
Tally Mon, tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr.
Tally Mon, tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day-o,
day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day, he say day, he say
day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan'
go home)
Transcribed by Ronald E.
Hontz
ronhontz
worldnet.att.net
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