Banana Boat Song - Day-O
Traditional:
courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com
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Day – O Day – O Day light come and I wanna go home
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Day, is a day, is a day ay ay - O, Daylight come and I wanna go home
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Work all night on a drink of rum (daylight come and I wanna go home)
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Stack bananas till the morning come (day light come and I wanna go home)
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Come Mister Tally Man tally me bananas (daylight come and I wanna go home) 2
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Lift 6 hand, 7 hand, 8 hand bunch, (daylight come and I wanna go home)2
CHORUS
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A beautiful bunch of ripe bananas (daylight come and I wanna go home)
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They hide the deadly black tarantula (daylight come and I wanna go home)
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Clerk man checks but he checks with caution (daylight come and I wanna go home
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My back is broke with sheer exhaustion (daylight come and I wanna go home)
CHORUS
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Day – O Day ay ay – O Daylight come and I wanna go home (4 times)
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