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"The Banana Boat Song" likely originated around the beginning of the 20th century when the banana trade in Jamaica was growing. It was sung by Jamaican dockworkers, who typically worked at night to avoid the heat of the daytime sun. When daylight arrived, they expected their boss would arrive to tally the bananas so they could go home. [4]
Daylight has come, the shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can return to their homes (this is the meaning of the lyric "Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana / Daylight come and me wan' go home.")
"'The tallyman,' Mum told me, 'slice off the top of the stems of the bunches as they take them in. Then him count the little stubs he just sliced off and pay the farmer.'" explains a Ms. Wade in Andrea Levy’s novel "Fruit of the Lemon". [2] Harry Belafonte addresses the tallyman in "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)."
I remember it as "Bic Banana markers for the office or home" 99.254.20.224 21:44, 2 November 2008 (UTC) I believe it was this: (from memory) Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana Bic Banana markers, you got to get some. Come in a one pack, eight pack, twenty pack ho! Bic Banana markers for the office or home. They, got a color for you!
An original character partially based on the second Tally Man named Mr. Blank appears in the Arrow episode "Home Invasion", portrayed by J. August Richards. [citation needed] This version is an assassin. He is hired by businessman Edward Rasmus to kill the Moore family before they can sue him for stealing their life savings.
It went bananas. The New York City fruit vendor who sold an ordinary banana that was duct-taped to a gallery wall inside Sotheby’s and sold for a whopping $6.2 million was devastated to learn ...
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On March 18, 1965, a 33-year-old truck driver, Eugene P. Sesky, was on his way to deliver a load of bananas to Scranton, Pennsylvania. [1] [4] [5] Sesky, an employee of Fred Carpentier—operator of a small truck line in Scranton—was returning from the boat piers at Newark, New Jersey, where he had picked up his load.