(El Manisero) A Cuban song from 1930.
Words by Marion Sunshine and L. Wolfe Gilbert.
Music by Moises Simons.
Arranged by Lawrence Kempton.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
In Cuba each merry maid wakes up with this serenade
Peanuts! Peanuts!
If you haven’t got bananas don’t be blue
Peanuts in a little bag are calling you
Don’t waste them, no tummy ache
You’ll taste them when you’re awake
For at the very break of day
The peanut vendor’s on his way
At dawning the whistle blows
Through every city, town and country lane
You’ll hear him sing his plaintive little strain
And as he goes by, to you he’ll say
Big Jumbo’s, big double ones
Come buy those peanuts roasted today
Come try those freshly roasted today
If you’re looking for a moral to this song
Fifty million little monkeys can’t be wrong
Coda
Peanuts, I go, Peanuts
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: