VIVA PANAMA
Words by Margaret Marks, music collected by Agnes Dixon

I came into town to sell my pig
The morning after Christmas
They gave me a spade and said to dig
A ditch across the Isthmus.

CHORUS
Qué viva - ¡viva Panama!
Qué viva - ¡viva Panama!
Qué viva viva viva viva - Panama!
Qué viva - ¡viva Panama!

I dug and I dug, the dirt just flew
The digging was terrific!
I dug a canal that joined the blue
Atlantic and Pacific.

CHORUS

And now in the shade beneath a tree,
I watch each ocean liner
Go through the canal from sea to sea
From sunny Spain to China.
CHORUS


Source: Music in our Country, Silver Burdett fifth grade songbook, 1956, pp. 150-151.

email me if you need a scan of the music notation. joe@mudcat.org

This melody sounds about right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1fV5_JybUY