VIVA PANAMA
(Traditional Panamanian)

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


There is no third verse, but the lyrics are the same as the first two verses in the Silver Burdett version above.

Source: BBC School Radio Singing Together, Spring 1990, page 26. Thanks, Nigel.

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