A BUNCH OF BANANAS (THE HEMING WAY)
(Dick Manning / Ogden Nash)
Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer - 1954
(Sound of plane crashing)
JOSÉ (Spoken): Huh-huh-huh, my luck she is running very good!
BOTH:
I got a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin
They keep the hunger out anf the happiness in
I got a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin
My luck she is running very good
JOSÉ:
I fly over jungle and my aeroplane boil
No gasoline and I run out of oil
I fill the tank with the gin and the banana oil
My luck she is running very good
(Oo-lay, oo-lay-ee-dee)
ROSEMARY:
That zebra is red hot mama
(Oo-lay, oo-lay-ee-dee)
JOSÉ:
She is horse in lounging pyjama
ROSEMARY:
We land in the jungle by the teeth of my skin
All the animals crowd around the flying machine
JOSÉ:
Big gorilla walk up to me and talk very mean
He put up his mits, I sock him on the chin
Then gorilla and me we begin the Beguine
BOTH:
With a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin
(Musical Interlude)
BOTH:
A bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin
Make a crazy sandwich full of vitamin
Outside you put the bananas and the gin in-between
My luck she is running very good
JOSÉ:
Today I meet tiger, he is hungry for meal
So I fed him gin to obtain his goodwill
Then when he chase me, he slip on the banana peel
My luck she is running very good
(Oo-lay, oo-lay-ee-dee)
ROSEMARY:
He got girls like Indian Rajah
(Oo-lay, oo-lay-ee-dee)
JOSÉ:
I don't need no Rita or Zsa-Zsa
ROSEMARY:
On Congo we meet a pretty cannibal Queen
We are posing for pictures in the Life magazine
JOSÉ:
She propose poker game to pass the time in-between
She promise she make me her King if I win
But if I lose, I wind up in her big soup tureen
With a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin
TRIVIA: Novelty song based on Ernest Hemingway's 1953
jungle plane crash while on safari in Africa. For nearly
a day he was believed dead, but then he emerged from the
jungle carrying a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin,
and was quoted as saying: "My luck, she is running very good."
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2008)
