Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit

"Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit" is a playground saying and children's song about how beans cause flatulence.
The basis of the song is the high amount of oligosaccharide present in beans. Bacteria in the large intestine digest these sugars, producing carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane.

Lyrics

Alternate lyrics include:
Another alternate version includes:
A variant documented by Iona Opie, an English folklorist, is:

A version of the rhyme appears at the beginning of Robert Crumb's comic strip, "Crybaby's Blues".
In The Simpsons season 4 episode 20 "Whacking Day," Bart performs a rendition of "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" in a Christian school.
The American bean brand Bush Brothers and Company wrote a related song with the singer Josh Groban. 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 ".
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."