"Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit" (alternately "Beans, Beans, good for your heart") is a playground saying and
children's song about the capacity for
beans to contribute to
flatulence.[1]
Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the happier you feel.
So eat your beans with every meal![3]
Alternate lyrics include:
Beans, beans, the magical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel so let’s have beans for every meal![4][5]
Popular culture
A version of the rhyme appears at the beginning of
Robert Crumb's comic strip, "Crybaby's Blues".[6]
In The Simpsons season 4 episode 20 "
Whacking Day," Bart performs a rendition of "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit."[7]
The American bean brand
Bush Brothers and Company wrote a related song with the singer
Josh Groban.[8][9][10] The lyrics include a direct reference to the rhyme: "They'd yell about the musical fruit // They'd say the more that I ate, the more I'd (toot)".[11]
In a "Dot's Poetry Corner" segment of Animaniacs, Dot recites a variation entitled "Ode to a Veggie", that goes "Beans, beans, the musical fruit / The more you eat, the more they kick you off the air if you finish this poem."[12]
General references
Dawson, Jim. Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart,
ISBN1-58008-011-1