Yes, We Have No Bananas
American nonsense song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn, 1923.
The composers claimed that their inspiration came from a Greek fruit peddler who nodded his head to signify that yes, he did not have any bananas left. But Greeks nod their heads to signify the negative and shake their heads for the affirmative, so the peddler had perfect ethnic logic on his side.
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