30,000 Pounds of Bananas Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Twinb1983 

Cover art for 30,000 Pounds of Bananas lyrics by Harry Chapin

This is actually a true story. Chapin wrote it after being told about a truck transporting bannannas which crashed in Scranton, spilling bannannas everywhere.

This next part I'm not 100% sure about, but I think that the woman who was the wife of the driver actually contacted Chapin about the song, and thats where the second live ending comes from.