Banana In Your Fruit Basket

by probably Bo Carter (Armenter "Bo" Chatmon) recording of June 4 1931 from Banana in Your Fruit Basket (Yazoo 1064) I got a brand new skillet , I got a brand new lead, all I need is a little woman, just to burn my bread I'm tellin' you baby, I sure ain't gonna deny, let me put my banana in your fruit basket, then I'll be satisfied Now, I got the washboard, my baby got the tub, we gonna put 'em together, gonna rub, rub, rub And I'm tellin' you baby, I sure ain't gonna deny, let me put my banana in your fruit basket, then I'll be satisfied Mmmmm, gonna let my banana spoil now, mama, gonna let my banana spoil, now I can see the way you carryin' on, you don't want my banana no how Now I got the dasher , my baby got the churn we gonna churn, churn, churn until the butter come Then I'm tellin' you baby, I sure ain't gonna deny, let me put my banana in your fruit basket, then I'll be satisfied Now my baby's got the cloth, and I got the needle, we gonna stitch, stitch, stitch, 'til we both will feel it Then I'm tellin' you baby, I sure ain't gonna deny, let me put my banana in your fruit basket, then I'll be satisfied Mmmmm, gonna let my banana ruin, now, mmmmm, gonna let my banana ruin, now I can see the way you carryin' on, you don't want my banana no how Now my baby's got the meat, and I got the knife, I'm gonna do her cuttin', this bound to solve my life And I'm tellin' you baby, I sure ain't gonna deny, let me put my banana in your fruit basket, then I'll be satisfied __________ Note 1: skillet, a small kettle or pot usually having three or four often long feet and used for cooking on the hearth OR a metal pan with a handle that is used for frying foods, called also fry pan; Note 2: dasher, a device having blades for agitating/stirring a liquid or semisolid Note 3: churn, a vessel for making butter in which milk or cream is agitated in order to separate the oily globules from the watery medium.

 

Buy the Book!

I cleaned up my tab for Sonny Boy's Help Me and made it into a short book. There's a Kindle version for 99 cents, and if you buy the paperback you get the Kindle free.

Playing "Help-Me" In the Style of Sonny Boy Williamson II: A step by step, note for note analysis of some of Sonny Boy's Signature Riffs