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Managua Nicaragua Lyrics

Artist: Guy Lombardo
Album: Managua Nicaragua

Managua, Nicaragua
- words by Albert Gamse, music by Irving Fields
- as recorded in New York November 15, 1946 by Guy Lombardo
and His Royal Canadians

Managua, Nicaragua is a beautiful town
You buy a hacienda for a few pesos down
You give it to the lady you are tryin' to win
But her papa doesn't let you come in

Managua, Nicaragua is a heavenly place
You ask a seorita for a 'leetle' embrace
She answers you, "Caramba! scram-ba bambarito"
In Managua, Nicaragua, that's "No"

I have been to many tropic ports
I might include even Brooklyn
If you're ever feelin' out of sorts
I'd like to recommend a look in...

Managua, Nicaragua, what a wonderful spot
There's coffee and bananas and a temperature hot
So take a trip and on a ship go sailing away
Across the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, ol
Ol, ol
Across the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, ol

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Managua, Nicaragua is a beautiful town
You buy a hosienda for a few pesos down
You give it to the lady you are tryin' to win
But her papa doesn't let you come in

Managua, Nicaragua is a heavenly place
You ask a seorita for a 'leetle' embrace
She answers you, "Caramba! scram-ba bambarito"
In Managua, Nicaragua, that's "No"

Every day is made for play and fun
'Cause every day is fiesta
And they work from twelve o'clock to one
Minus an hour for siesta

Managua, Nicaragua, what a wonderful spot
There's coffee and bananas and a temperature hot
So take a trip and on a ship go sailing away
Across the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, ol
Ol, ol
Across the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, ol

Comments/Interpretations

by Chris Skjervold on 6/30/2008 11:50am
What the...?

by Dust on 1/25/2009 5:02pm
My spanish teach brought this song up in class, it's kinda catchy.

by Joann Stahl on 2/28/2009 6:56am
Great tune, very catchy, Love the rhythm wish I could find the music for it. My Church is doing a Caberet and the songs will be from different countries around the world.

by kelli mcguire on 11/18/2010 1:49pm
I learned the words to this song (before Google) by playing the TAPE over & over, stopping, rewinding a thousand times! The tape was given to me by Ambassador Gutierrez, the U.S. Ambassador to Managua, so that I could learn the words to sing it at the embassy talent show I was organizing.

by diana schulz on 11/20/2010 2:08am
i was born in 1946 & my mom had this record & played it, it was a riot. i hate to tell you this but those were the days, i mean those were the real days.

by Clive Cudmore on 3/7/2011 6:01pm
Gret old song, been in my thoughts lately.

by Juicy Fruit on 3/18/2011 10:32am
I learned this in Spanish. We are having a test on the countries and capitols of Spanish speaking countries. This song will make me never forget what the capitol of Nicaragua.

by Bill Fowler on 6/16/2011 10:19am
Didn't know the lyrics were ever in Spanish. I recall it for the late 40's. Quite popular at the time.

by PAUL A JOHNSON / R.N. on 2/23/2012 5:18pm
GREAT SITE AND KEEP UP THE PROFESSIONAL WORK............IT IS AWSOME!

by Jim Gerardi on 7/29/2012 5:19pm
Around 1948, my older brother had this song on a 78 rpm record, and we played it over and over. I came to this site to get the words because all I could remember were the first two lines. But the tune has stayed with me all these years.

by Mary Friesen on 2/27/2015 8:22am
I grew up in the 30's and 40's and was a big fan of all pop music. I can still sing many of
the songs, but only learned a couple. lines from "Managua etc." Thanks for the rest of it. I agree with Diana Schultz, "those were the real days" and real music.

by marty Bodner on 3/9/2015 8:27pm
The song was reflective of life back then. Calmer, more peaceful and easier to handle. THANKS !

by joan schuster on 8/23/2016 8:04am
I never dreamt when I was in high school in Harrison NY singing and dancing "Managua Nicaragua" that I would one day wind up living there from March 3 1960 to Nov. 3 1962. While I didn't live in an hacienda, I lived in a beautiful house with spacious grounds where the owner planted coffee seeds which when they became small trees were transplanted to his coffee plantation high up in the hills. I had the time of my life in Managua Nicaragua and cried when the plane took off for Miami. It was during the Cuban Missile Crisis and our plane was escorted into Miami Airport by a Navy Fighter Plane. A dramatic ending to a time I will never forget.

by Ed keener on 2/28/2017 10:13am
I visited Nicaragua a few years ago with our Singles group from Ward Church, Livonia, Michigan. We enjoyed music from a local Spanish band. I requested they play and sing "Minagus Nicaragua" which they did wonderfully. I did however wonder about their seeming initial resistance. I learned later that when the Communists were in control a few years earlier the lyrics or music had at the time political ramifications that I had never heard of. They sang and played it beautifully. But their lyrics differed some from those I remembered from Guy Lombardo treatment of the same in the 1940s.

by ass keeper on 10/16/2017 10:57am
this song has been a disaster. please change the lips of whoever sang this bullshit. we all think this piece of shit. absolute nightmare listening to this rug ass song.

by Some guy on 5/14/2018 4:47pm
I've heard a verse that went something like: Managua Nicaragua what a beautiful spot, you buy a big sombrero from the neighborhood shop, then all the girls will follow you like in a parade, not because they like you just to walk in your shade

by Old Bear on 7/21/2018 9:42am
Why post things like "ass keeper". There's no excuse for it.

Diane Schulz has it right. (I was born in 1931).

by Old Bear on 7/21/2018 9:43am
Why post things like "ass keeper". There's no excuse for it.

Diana Schulz has it right. (I was born in 1931).

by suzie-q on 11/13/2018 9:46am
Many years ago, a friend and I drove along the coast from California to Mexico and Central America. I still think of it as one of the best trips I've ever taken. Incredibly beautiful views, nice towns, great places to stay, and the nicest and most interesting people I ever met. So glad I did that trip!