Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit
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"Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" is a children's song about the capacity for beans to contribute to flatulence. The song is also variously known as "Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit" and "Beans, Beans, the Wonderful Fruit". One variation of the song is titled "Beans, Beans, They're Good for Your Heart."
In all variations of the song, the lyrics reference the high amounts of oligosaccharides present in beans. Bacteria in the large intestine digest these sugars, producing carbon dioxide and hydrogen; these gasses are expelled from the body as flatulence.
In one version of the song, the lyrics run:
Beans, beans, the musical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So let's eat beans for every meal!
and another versions lyrics run
Beans, beans, they're good for your heart.
The more you eat, the more you fart.
The more you fart, the better you feel.
So let's eat beans for every meal!
[edit] Popular culture
In The Simpsons episode Whacking Day when Bart is expelled from Springfield Elementary, his parents enroll him in a private Christian school. However he gets in trouble almost immediately for singing "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" when asked for a psalm, and is chased from the building by the teacher and other students. In the opening sequence of another episode, Bart can be seen writing "Beans are neither fruit nor musical" on the blackboard.
In Stephen King's The Gunslinger, the first part of The Dark Tower, this song is sung by Zolton, a raven kept by an eccentric youngman living in the lonely desert, who provides hospitality to the gunslinger on his quest.
