THE PEANUT VENDOR (El Manisero)
Don Azpiazu
English words by Marion Sunshine and L. Wolfe Gilbert
music and Spanish words by Moises Simons
Four versions charted in 1931: Don Azpiazu (#1); California
Ramblers (#5); Red Nichols (#5); and Louis Armstrong (#15)
Armstrong re-issued it in 1941 and hit # 25.
In Cuba, each merry maid
Wakes up with this serenade
Peanuts! Theyre nice and hot
Peanuts! I sell alot
If you havent got bananas, dont be blue
Peanuts in a little bag are calling you
Dont waste them, no tummy ache
Youll taste them when you awake
For at the very break of day
The peanut vendors on his way
At dawning that whistle blows
Through evry city, town, and country lane
Youll hear him sing his plaintive little strain
And as he goes by to you hell say:
Big jumbos, big double ones
Come buy those peanuts roasted today
Come try those freshly roasted today!BR Peanuts! I sell alot,
BRPeanuts! Well meet again
BRPeanuts! This street again
BRPeanuts! Youll eat again
BRYour peanut man.?
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