Maņana (Is Soon Enough For Me)

Words & Music by Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour, 1947
Recorded by Peggy Lee, 1948 (#1)


E7   A    D9      A        Edim     E7         D9      E7
The faucet she is dripping and the fence she's fallin' down,

   E7     Bm7-5       E7   Fdim   A6      Cdim  A6
My pocket needs some money, so I can't go into town;

    A             F#7            Bm           Fdim(III)
My brother isn't working and my sister doesn't  care --

     D      Cdim    A    F#m    D9      E    A
The car she needs a motor so I can't go anywhere.

  A       B7      E              D9       A
Maņana, maņana, maņana is soon enough for me.


My mother's always working, she's working very hard,
But every time she looks for me I'm sleeping in the yard.
My mother thinks I'm lazy and maybe she is right --
I'll go to work maņana but I gotta sleep tonight.
Maņana, maņana, maņana is soon enough for me.

Oh, once I had some money but I gave it to my friend;
He said he'd pay me double, it was only for a lend.
But he said a little later that the horse she was so slow --
Why he give the horse my money is something I don't know.
Maņana, maņana, maņana is soon enough for me.

Instrumental Interlude: one verse

My brother took a suitcase and he went away to school;
My father said he only learned to be a silly fool.
My father said that I should learn to make a chile pot --
But then I burned the house down, the chile was too hot.
Maņana, maņana, maņana is soon enough for me.

The window she is broken and the rain is comin' in;
If someone doesn't fix it I'll be soaking to my skin.
But if we wait a day or two the rain may go away,
And we don't need a window on such a sunny day.
Maņana, maņana, maņana is soon enough for me.
Maņana, maņana, maņana is soon enough for me.



 
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