Chiquita Banana.  Patti Clayton.

Seq - Ron Tilden. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. Nov 2002.

Chiquita Banana
Words and Music by: Len MacKenzie, Garth Montgomery and William Wirges (1944)
Performed by: Patti Clayton (The first "Miss Chiquita")
Sequenced by: Ron Tilden

I'm Chiquita Banana
And I've come to say,

I come from little island
down Equator way.

I sail on big banana boat
from Carribee,

to see if I can help
good neighbor policee.

I bring a song about bananas.
I sing it low, I sing it hi yie.

I make big hit with 'Mericanos,
singing song about bananos.

I could sing about the moonlight
on the very very tropical Equator,

But no, I sing about bananas
and the refrigerator.

I'm Chiquita Banana
And I've come to say,

bananas have to ripen
in a certain way.

When they are flecked with brown
and have a golden hue,

bananas taste the best
and are the best for you.

You can put them in a salad,
you can put them in a pie yie;

any way you want to eat them,
It's impossible to beat them;

But bananas like the climate
of the very very tropical Equator;

So you should never put bananas
in the refrigerator.
No no no no.

Chiquita Banana
Soft karaoke
Words
Melody
Harmony
Steel Drums
Guitar
Kalimba
Horns
Bass
Drums