30,000 Pounds of Bananas - The Song

The Song

The song portrays a fictional account of the incident played in the form of a country song. With each verse, the song gets faster to which Chapin explained is to "build up intensity and excitement." During the chorus, Chapin sings the phrase "thirty-thousand pounds" followed by Big John Wallace singing the bass line "of bananas." During concerts, the audience was encouraged to shout this refrain.

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