I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH
OF COCONUTS!
I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH
OF COCONUTS,
EVERY BALL YOU THROW
WILL MAKE ME RICH.
THERE STANDS MY WIFE,
THE IDOL OF MY LIFE,
SINGING ROLL A BOWL A
BALL A PENNY A PITCH.
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
A PENNY A
PITCH.
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
A PENNY A
PITCH.
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
SINGING
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
A PENNY A
PITCH!
DOWN AT THE ENGLISH
FAIR,
ONE EVENING I WAS THERE,
I HEARD A SHOWMAN
SHOUTING,
UNDERNEATH THE
FLAIR.
I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH
OF COCONUTS,
THERE THEY ARE ALL
STANDING IN A ROW.
BIG ONES, SMALL ONES,
SOME AS BIG AS YOUR HEAD,
GIVE THEM A TWIST, A
FLICK OF THE WRIST,
THAT'S WHAT THE SHOWMAN
SAID.
FRED HEATHERTON, AN
ENGLISH SONGWRITER, WROTE "I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH OF COCONUTS" IN
1944.
THE SONG WAS
RECORDED AND PERFORMED BY DANNY KAYE (DAVID DANIEL KAMINSKI).
DANNY KAYE WAS A
VERSATILE MUSCIAN, TV AND MOVIE STAR DURING THE 1950s AND 1960s.
I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH
OF COCONUTS,
THERE THEY ARE ALL
STANDING IN A ROW.
BIG ONES, SMALL ONES,
SOME AS BIG AS YOUR HEAD,
GIVE THEM A TWIST, A
FLICK OF THE WRIST,
THAT'S WHAT THE SHOWMAN
SAID.
I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH
OF COCONUTS,
EVERY BALL YOU THROW
WILL MAKE ME RICH.
THERE STANDS MY WIFE,
THE IDOL OF MY LIFE,
SINGING ROLL A BOWL A
BALL A PENNY A PITCH.
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
A PENNY A
PITCH.
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
A PENNY A
PITCH.
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
SINGING
ROLL-A-BOWL-A-BALL,
A PENNY A
PITCH!
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