In 2nd or 3rd grade we learned a rhyme extolling the sonic properties of baked beans. So I’m wondering how others learned it. So, were beans:
- The musical fruit
- The magical fruit
- Good for your heart?
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Musical fruit. Never heard the variations that I noticed.
I first learned #1 and then heard #3 as an adult (in a movie or TV show). I don’t think I’ve ever heard “magical”, but it would definitely be in the tiny minority if I have.
Magical
Clearly no 3
All three. Musical, magical, heart-healthy.
Beans, oh beans, the magical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel
And soon you’re ready for another meal
Of beans, oh beans, the magical fruit . . .
can be continued until somebody stops you.
Presumably part of what’s magical about them is that they somehow become fruit.
For me it was:
Beans, beans, the magical fruit;
The more you eat, the more you toot;
The more you toot, the better you feel;
Let’s eat beans for every meal!
Good for your heart. We weren’t tootin’.
I heard both 1 and 3 when I was a kid. “Good for your heart,” was probably used more often.
@Kron nailed the version I knew as a kid.
But right now I sorta like @thorny_locust’s perpetual version better. Much better at driving the grown-ups nuts. 
We could recast it a bit to solve that problem …
Beans, beans, the magical legumes;
The more you eat, da stronger da’fumes;
The stronger da fumes, da bettah you feel;
Let’s eat beans wit every meal!
Bart Simpson preferred #1, twice. Once in a religious school (he didn’t get past the second line) and once when he was somehow in an academically advanced school, when I think he got through the whole four lines.
It scans better if it’s “magic legumes”
It sure does. I started with it that way but then the second line is too long vs. the first.
Or at least so it seemed to me. IANA poet.
Same, and often together. “Musical fruit” in the first verse, “good for your heart” in the second.
I think it works ok, for some reason it sounds better if the first line is more strict to meter, and later lines can be allowed to gallop a little.
The variations I’ve heard on it have focused on the last line of the ditty. It’s always:
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 with every meal
Now the last line I have also heard: “so spread those cheeks and let ‘em squeal!”
I first learned it as…
Beans, beans, a nickel a quart
The more you eat, the more you fart.
Is there a dialect somewhere where that actually rhymes?