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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!
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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 VERSTILE MUSCIAN, TV AND MOVIE STAR DURING THE 1950s AND 1960s.
DANNY KAYE 1913-1987
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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!