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.?