Apples and Bananas

About Apples and Bananas

"Apples and Bananas" or "Oopples and Boo-noo-noos" is a traditional North American children's song that plays with the vowels of words. The first verse usually begins unaltered: The following verses replace most or all vowels with one given vowel sound, usually each of the long vowels sounds of ⟨a⟩ (/eɪ/), ⟨e⟩ (/iː/), ⟨i⟩ (/aɪ/), ⟨o⟩ (/oʊ/), and ⟨u⟩ (/uː/), although potentially any English vowel can be used. For example: Raffi, a Canadian musician, released a version of the song on his album One Light, One Sun (1985). Raffi's version only changed the stressed vowels; that is, the vowels in "eat", "apples", and the last 2 syllables of "bananas". The song was described as one of several "old favorites" by the Ottawa Citizen in 1984. The song was also sung on three early episodes of the children's television program Barney & Friends, as well as on Rock with Barney, the final video in the predecessor series Barney & the Backyard Gang. As with Raffi, Barney's version also only changed the stresses vowels. The Wiggles did sing their version on their album released in 2014. more »

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I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas

I like ate, ate, ate epples and benenes
I like ate, ate, ate epples and benenes

I like to eat, eat, eat eepples and beeneenees
I like to eat, eat, eat eepples and beeneenees

And I like to ite, ite, ite ipples and bininis
I like to ite, ite, ite ipples and bininis

I like to ote, ote, ote, oplles and bononos
I like to ote, ote, ote, oplles and bononos

And I like to ute, ute, ute upples and bununus
I like to ute, ute, ute upples and bununus

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Raffi

Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC (born July 8, 1948), better known by his stage name Raffi, is an Egyptian-born Canadian singer-songwriter, author, essayist, and lecturer of Armenian descent. He has developed his career as a "global troubadour", to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, and founder of the Centre for Child Honouring, a vision for global restoration. more »

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