Banana Boy

It’s a festive banana!

This song was composed for a Year 4 class at St. John Vianney’s Primary School in Brisbane, and has been performed many times by various classes in that school and others in New Zealand and the UK. A favourite performance detail has been to pretend to fall asleep during the final lullaby section, and then burst back to life for the final “Banana Boy!” What larks!

It is one of several banana songs I’ve composed over the years including “Ooh Ladyfinger”, “Banana Fanfare 2”, “The Sixth Duke Of Devonshire” and “I Love Bananas”, and also an entertaining musical drama based upon some of the diseases from which banana plants suffer.

The version of Banana Boy on this video is from the Sea Pie Parcel collection of songs for young choir or classes with optional part singing. In this song the part singing takes the form of repeating voice percussion parts, and some simple harmonies.

Go to Banana Boy for high voices
The SATB version contains much more harmony, but also keeps the voice percussion ideas.