Rick Lee JamesHealthcare Chaplain, Bon Secours Mercy Health · Husband, Dad, Hospital Chaplain, Recording Artist, Podcast Host, Loyola University IPS Graduate, Alpha Sigma Nu Member, and Recording Academy (GRAMMY®) member - Contributing musician on a Grammy-nomin

Beans

15 Oct 2014 · 2 min

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Two speakers perform a fast-paced, absurd musical sketch that relentlessly chants at a boy to eat beans. The song mixes nonsense syllables, exaggerated slang, and jokes about beans making you strong and driving the neighbors away.

Chapters

♪ You got to eat them beans boy ♪ ♪ you gotta eat dem beanz ♪ ♪ they're hot n' juicy an good 'n green ♪ ♪ And ya gotta eet deem beanz! Ya gothta eeatdeem beeans boi ♪ ♪ yo godda eeitdem bieenzs... Yo can't get up till da plate iz cleenan ♪ ♪ yahgotta eahtdem bees ♪ ♪ Yahgotha heeattem beams—
Boiiiiiy ya gothta eeittdem beefzzss ♪ ♪ The stubbornest boiiii ever done seen him ♪ ♪ Yuh gotoo eatthem beads ♪ ♪ Yeugotteeatembeens boooyyy yeegottoeeteethemmebeeennsss ♪ I mean what I say and I say what I mean and you got to eat them beans. You got to eat them beans, boy, you got to eat them beans. They better be gone when I count to 3 and you got to eat them beans. You finally ate them beans, boy, you finally ate them beans. If you want to be good and strong and lean, then you got to eat them beans. Oh, shoo-wee! What is that smell? Oh, why did you eat them beans, boy? Why did you eat them beans? The neighbors done up and then moved to Queens all 'cause you ate them beans.