30,000 Pounds of Bananas Harry Chapin

[Verse 1]
It was just after dark when the truck started down
The hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania

[Refrain]
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas
Carrying thirty thousand pounds
Hit it big John
Of bananas

[Verse 2]
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
Where children play without despair
In backyard slag piles and folks manage to eat each day

[Refrain]
About thirty thousand pounds of bananas
Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds
Scream it again, John
Of bananas

[Verse 3]
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-breath 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