In the United States, copyrights pass into the public domain 95 years after creation. But this is keyed not to the date of the creation of the work: it is keyed to the following New Year. So when the ball dropped this year, a lot of creative stuff from 1923 entered the public domain (including the novel Bambi ). You have to be careful about Bambi, of course, because the armada of lawyers working for Disney are notoriously aggressive about claiming that any use of the underlying work is actually a violation of their earlier use of that same work. Anyway, I think it is now safe for me to use in this blog post in full, without paying anyone, the full lyrics of the most famous song about bananas ever written, a 1923 classic. (And yes, I feel some non-mandatory gratitude to Frank Silver, who wrote these words, and to Irving Cohn, who set them to the tune surely now running through your head. A toast to them!) There's a fruit store on our street It's run by a Gr...