If you sing this song and are willing to talk of where & when you
learned it, please email me at
 . Thanks! John Patrick.
Manana
(aka Barcelona or Way Down in Barcelona)
Way down in Barcelona
Where the birdies learn to fly
A birdie dropped a turie
In another birdie's eye.
Said the governor to the birdie
"You're here to learn to fly
And not to drop a turie
In another birdie's eye."
Chorus:
- Manana, manana,
Manana is good enough for me!
Way down in Barcelona,
Where ladies learn to knit,
A lady stuck a needle,
In another lady's tit.
Said the governor to the lady,
"You're here to learn to knit,
And not to stick a needle,
In another lady's tit."
Way down in Barcelona,
Where beavers build the wall,
A beaver dropped a boulder on
Another beaver's ball.
Said the governor to the beaver,
"You're here to build the wall,
And not to drop a boulder on,
Another beaver's ball."
Way down in Barcelona
Where the hippies smoke the grass
A hippy stuck a reefer up
Another hippies ass
Said the Governor to hippy
You're here to smoke the grass
And not to stick a reefer up
Another hippies ass.
[slowly] Way down in Barcelona,
Where the lepers decompose,
A leper picked a bogey from,
Another leper's nose.
Said the governor to the leper,
[speeding up]
"You're here to decompose,
And not to pick a bogey from,
Another leper's nose."
The above song is a
parody of the song by Peggy Lee MANANA (IS SOON ENOUGH FOR
ME). I received the recording from the Kazaa network. If
you know what CD this is from, please contact me
. I wish to purchase the cd.
The song MANANA by Peggy Lee was #1 on the Hit Parade and spent a
total of 10 weeks on the Parade in 1948. It was introduced in the
Paramount film "Dancing On A Dime" (1948).
This song with the same tune but with variant lyrics was recorded
by Vera Baerg on the Mac Gregor label (# 1017) and another version,
also with variant lyrics, is recorded by Johnnie Wykoff on the Blue
Star label (# 2398).
I have not been able to discover whether Peggy Lee wrote the
TUNE, or if they adapted a tradition tune for this song.
The bawdy song seems to be very rare and has little oral
currency. It is only preserved in three Hash House Harrier songbooks
online two with identical texts.
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