MANANA SONG

Sung by Max Parker
On LP Al Tocar Diana, At Dawn Break: Songs From A Franco Prison
Folkways Records Album No FH 5435, 1982 FOLKWAYS RECORDING DETAILS Then click on the ► symbol 108 to hear a performance extract.

There are many words in Spanish that we would like to know.
Dictionaries they are scarce as roses in the snow.
But there is one word in Spanish that you never ought to miss.
So listen carefully and you will find that it is this:

Manana. Manana. That old familiar cry.
Manana. Manana. We'll hear it 'til we die.

When will the kitchen have in stock a grapefruit or banana?
Cook shakes his head and whispers low that mystic word, "Manana."

Manana si, ahora no. No tengo cambio.
Regancha, regancha, regancha. No hay, no hay, no hay.
Yo comprendo. Yo entiendo. Hablo, hablas, habla. Hablamos, hablais, hablan.

the following is an excerpt from notes to Al Tocar Diana, Max Parker, Folkways FW 05435:Album Notes pdf

Note: "I have no change" was in general reference to the currency complications in Republican sectors. Under conditions of the National Front's sabotage of currency basis, each village, town and city had to use different currencies. Hence, frequently, no change for out of town money!

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From: GeoffLawes - PM
Date: 29 Dec 2010
I have started a fresh thread requesting information called MANANA: 1930's& Spanish Civil War Song HERE. It gives new information and lyrics to the song as performed by Ed Balchowsky plus a link to his singing of the song in the film The Good Fight.