CANTUS: El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor) by Moíses Simons
This performance was recorded LIVE at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in October 2021 as a part of Cantus' touring show, 'My Journey Yours'.
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El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)
Moíses Simons (1885-1945)
arr. Yosvany Estepe Diaz
Caserita no te acuestes ya llegué
El manisero llegó
Si te quieres por el pico divertir
Cómprame un cucuruchito de maní
Que calentito, y rico esta (traigo mani)
Ya no se puede pedir más
Ay, caserita no me dejes ir
Cómprame mi maní
Porque después te vas a arrepentir
Y va a ser muy tarde ya
El manisero ven que ya llegó
Ya está aqui
Cuando la calle, sola esta
Acera de mi corazón
El manisero, entona su pregón
Y si la niña escucha su cantar
Llama desde su balcón
Esta noche no voy a poder dormir
Sin comerme un cucurucho de maní
El manisero, entona su pregón
El manisero se va
Ya se fué
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Homemaker don’t lie down, I’m here!
The peanut vendor has arrived.
If you want to have a treat for your mouth
Buy a cone of peanuts!
How warm, and delicious (I bring peanuts)
One can hardly ask for more!
Ah, little homemaker, don’t let me go
Buy my peanuts
Because, later, you will regret it
And it will already be too late...
The peanut vendor has arrived
They are here.
When the street is empty,
On the sidewalk of my heart
The peanut vendor makes his announcement
And, if the girl hears his song,
She calls him from her balcony.
I won’t be able to sleep tonight
Without having eaten a cone of peanuts!
The peanut vendor makes his announcement
and then the peanut vendor leaves.
He’s gone!
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