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THE APPLES AND BANANA SONG (traditional)


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The Apples and Banana Song


MMario 30 Oct 00 - 10:44 AM
mousethief 30 Oct 00 - 12:23 PM
MMario 30 Oct 00 - 12:32 PM
Mark Cohen 31 Oct 00 - 12:08 AM
Ella who is Sooze 31 Oct 00 - 06:31 AM
MMario 31 Oct 00 - 08:43 AM
Alan of Australia 01 Nov 00 - 06:31 PM
GUEST 20 Jun 04 - 06:23 AM
open mike 20 Jun 04 - 04:04 PM
GUEST 19 Jan 05 - 10:41 AM
Joe Offer 19 Jan 05 - 03:08 PM
GUEST 11 Nov 06 - 06:59 PM
Azizi 11 Nov 06 - 07:12 PM
GUEST,Janell 11 Jan 07 - 11:16 AM
TRUBRIT 11 Jan 07 - 06:34 PM
patriot1314 11 Jan 07 - 07:24 PM
GUEST,Dave Sunshine 11 Jan 07 - 09:13 PM
Mo the caller 17 Jan 07 - 06:29 AM
TRUBRIT 17 Jan 07 - 09:15 PM
s&r 18 Jan 07 - 06:38 AM
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Subject: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: MMario
Date: 30 Oct 00 - 10:44 AM

a traditional children's camp song found by John_in_brisbane.

THE APPLES AND BANANA SONG (traditional)

I like to eat, eat, eat, eat
I like to eat, apples and bananas
I like to eat, eat, eat, eat
I like to eat, apples and bananas

I like to ate, ate, ate, ate
I like to ate, ay-ples and bay-nay-nays
I like to ate, ate, ate, ate
I like to ate, ay-ples and bay-nay-nays

I like to eat, eat, eat, eat
I like to eat, eep-ples and bee-nee-nees
I like to eat, eat, eat, eat
I like to eat, eep-ples and bee-nee-nees

I like to ite, ite, ite, ite
I like to ite, i-pels and bi-ni-nis
I like to ite, ite, ite, ite
I like to ite, i-pels and bi-ni-nis

I like to oat, oat, oat, oat
I like to oat, o-pals and bo-no-nose
I like to oat, oat, oat, oat
I like to oat, o-pals and bo-no-nose

I like to oot, oot, oot, oot
I like to oot, oop-ples and boo-noo-noos
I like to oot, oot, oot, oot
I like to oot, oop-ples and boo-noo-noos

Now we are through, through, through, through Now we are through with A E I O U

midi to alan, NWC to DickG


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: mousethief
Date: 30 Oct 00 - 12:23 PM

I learned a slightly different version from my 1st wife.

The tune has 8 lines but the verse changes every 4.

I like to eat
I like to eat
I like to eat
Apples and bananas
Oh loke toe oat
Oh loke toe oat
Oh loke toe oat
Opals o'nd bononos

And so forth through the various vowels (and diphthongs!).

Alex
O..O
=o=


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: MMario
Date: 30 Oct 00 - 12:32 PM

Most kids songs have about umpty-eleventeen variations; don't they? Or sometimes eleventy-seven or more....

I'm sometimes surprised at the number of "kid's songs" that I've never heard...though we did a lot of singing when we were kids.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 31 Oct 00 - 12:08 AM

As the season is approaching, I'll share a Hanukkah version I made up a few years ago for my stepson's preschool:

I like to eat, eat, eat, applesauce and latkes....

(Then, ayplesauce and laytkays, eeplesauce and leetkees, and so on...)

For the uninitiated, latkes are potato pancakes traditionally eaten on Hanukkah, or Chanukah, or Hanukka, with applesauce. The oil they are cooked in is supposedly meant to signify the oil that lasted for eight days in the Temple, though I've always assumed that's just an excuse for making them. In Israel, the traditional Chanukah food is doughnuts called Sufganiyot; also made with oil, of course.

Aloha,
Mark
(I did this song for my daughter's school in Boulder two weeks ago and they still loved it!)


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 31 Oct 00 - 06:31 AM

um OH DEAR...

stop it your scaring me.

ha haaa..

Never heard of this, of course though being a child of the 70s and 80's I grew up with a daft pop song called AEIOU.

A, A, A E I O U U da da da daaaa a

oh, no

Ella


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: MMario
Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:43 AM

Mark - that sounds great. I hope they include your variant if this gets "harvested" for the DT.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 01 Nov 00 - 06:31 PM

G'day,
Thanks to John in Brisbane the tune for "The Apples And Bananas Song" can be found here at the Mudcat MIDI site.

Cheers,
Alan


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 04 - 06:23 AM

RARRRR


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: open mike
Date: 20 Jun 04 - 04:04 PM

i add this when singin' for kids...
teaching them the sign language for the
vowels....and including after the last
line with the vowels, plus the words "I love you"
along with the sign language for these words too.
hard to do the sign language at the same time as
playing the guitar, though...best to have a helper!


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 10:41 AM

i son loves this song he is only 3 weeks old,when he is crying and hear this song he just stops crying.so me and my wife will sing the song to him it was saved on my cable box it not there anymore,so i just came on the internet to find it so i can buy it i really think this is a great tool with vowels.keep up the good work


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: THE APPLES AND BANANAS SONG
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:08 PM

Mudcatters Sandy and Caroline Paton have a couple of wonderful children's CD's. One is I've Got a Song! Folksongs for Youngsters. The other one, When the Spirit Says Sing has "Apples and Bananas" and lots of other extraordinary songs that both children and adults will love. You can find them at http://www.folk-legacy.com, 1-800-836-0901
-Joe Offer-


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 06:59 PM

That song is wired. Your wired who made this song.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:12 PM

Hmmm. So GUEST thinks the Apples and Bananas song is "wired".

Well, everyone's entitled to his or her opinions.

If GUEST is still around, what do you think about this children's song that I first heard in the mid 1980s at a Pittburgh, PA summer camp for kids ages 5-12 years?

I LIKE BANANAS
I like bananas, coconuts, and grapes.
That's why they call me
Tarzan of the apes!

[repeat again and again with accompanying gestures such as patting your chest when you say "Tarzan of the Apes". Also, those words are sung louder than the other words.]

This song probably has nothing at all to do with the Apples and Bananas song except that it mentions bananas, and except for the fact that some kids and adults who may or may not be 'wired' have fun singing it.

:o)


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: GUEST,Janell
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:16 AM

I like to eat eat eat apples and bananas
i like to oat oat oat apples n bananas
i like to eat eat eat apples n bananas
u like to eat eat apples n bananas


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 06:34 PM

Schooner Fair, a Maine used to be trio but now sadly just two because Tommy Rowe died of cancer, often do this song in concert. Because they write a great deal of their music I assumed they had written this too - but obviously I am wrong. Fun song. They also wrote a wonderful song about a cat who had no memory so as soon as he was inside he was asking to go out and as soon as he was out was asking to come in (I believe his name was Patrick Finnegan -- who used to like to come in again).


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: patriot1314
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 07:24 PM

Apples and Bananas could be found on one of the early Singing Kettle albums.....not sure if it's still available though.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: GUEST,Dave Sunshine
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:13 PM

It's a song that I use a lot with kids
Having done AEIOU we then do a e i o u (I like to at. at, at ,at etc)

I then get them to have a go at I like to eat Peperoni Pizza!

Our last line is
Now we're thorough, through, through, through,
Now we're through with the apples and bananas
Now we're through, through, through, through
With A, E, I, O, U

And re the mention on Singing Kettle (Cilla Fisher and Artie Tresize)
I learnt the song from them many years ago - and Artie produced our LP/Cassette 'Sunny Songs for Kids' (we really must make a CD!)
Also woth a mention is the fact they were both awarded the MBE several years ago, and in this years list Cilla's brother Archie also gets a MBE! Great stuff


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: Mo the caller
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 06:29 AM

Was that cat owned by Michael Finnegan
With the whiskers on his chin-egan?
Wind came out and blew them in-egan
Poor old Michael Finnegan
Begin agin.

Same tune??


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:15 PM

No - very different. I just looked through my Schooner Fare collection -- not comprehensive but I have most of their tapes/CDS but I don't find a version of this song.......

The chorus is something on the lines of .....

First he wants to go out, out, out
Then he wants to come in, in, in
I guess he forgot where he was just a minute before
Then he wants to go out, out, out
Then he wants to come in, in, in
He's always on the wrong side of the door.

It's a nice little song and gets great response from the audience, most of whom are usually long term Schooner Fare songs. Chuck Romanoff solos on it......


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Apples and Bananas Song
From: s&r
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 06:38 AM

What's wired?

Stu


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