Work all night on a drink of rum, Daylight come and me want go home. Chop banana til the morning come. Daylight come...

Day-o, day-o Daylight come... Day-o, day-o

A beautiful bunch of ripe banana, Daylight come... Hide the deadly black tarantula, Daylight come...

Day-o...etc.

Come mister tally man, tally me banana, Daylight come... Come mister... Daylingt come...

I pack up all me things and I go to sea, Daylight come... Then all these banana see the last of me. Daylight come...

Day-o...etc.

Come mr. tallyman...