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Don Azpiazu
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The Peanut Vendor
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! Theyâre nice and hot
Peanuts! I sell alot
If you havenât got bananas, donât be blue
Peanuts in a little bag are calling you
Donât waste them, no tummy ache
Youâll taste them when you awake
For at the very break of day
The peanut vendorâs on his way
At dawning that whistle blows
Through evâry city, town, and country lane
Youâll hear him sing his plaintive little strain
And as he goes by to you heâll say:
âBig jumbos, big double ones
Come buy those peanuts roasted today
Come try those freshly roasted today!âBR Peanuts! I sell alot,
BRâPeanuts! Weâll meet again
BRPeanuts! This street again
BRPeanuts! Youâll eat again
BRYour peanut man.?