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Managua, Nicaragua

by Guy Lombardo · posted by WaltP

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Tab
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
words by Albert Gamse, music by Irving Fields
Freddy Martin, Guy Lombardo
Key: F

-3 3* -3   -3 3* 3* -3  -3-3  -3 -3* -3*  -3*
Ma-na-gua, Ni-ca-ra-gua is a beau-ti-ful town
3   -2* 3 3 -2*-2* 3   3 -3 -3  -2 -2   -2
You buy a ha-ci-en-da for a few pe-sos down
-3   3*  -3 -3  3* 3* -3 -3  -3  -3 -3* -3* -3*
You give it to the la-dy you are try-in' to win
4    1  1  2   3   -3* -3  -2   -2  -2
But her pa-pa does-n't let you come in

-3 3* -3   -3 3* 3* -3  -3-3  -3 -3*-3*  -3*
Ma-na-gua, Ni-ca-ra-gua is a heav-en-ly place
3   -2* 3  3 -2*-2* 3  3 -3   -3  -2   -2  -2
You ask a sen-o-ri-ta for a 'leet-tle' em-brace
-3   3*  -3  -3     3* 3* -3  
She ans-wers you, "Car-am-ba! 
-3    -3 -3 -3*-3*-3*
scram-ba bam-ba-ri-to"
4  1  1   2   3 -3* -3 -2     -2    -2
In Ma-na-gua, Ni-ca-ra-gua, that's "No"

-2  3   -3 -3*  4 -3* -5  4   -3*
I have been to man-y tro-pic ports
-2  -2  -2   -2  -2 -2  -3*  -2
I might in-clude ev-en Brook-lyn
-2    3   -3-3*  4  -3*  -5  4   -3*
If you're ev-er feel-in' out of sorts
-3   -3  -3 -3 -3   -3 -3  -5  4
I'd like to re-com-mend a look in...

-3 3* -3   -3 3* 3* -3    -3 -3 -3  -3* -3*  -3*
Ma-na-gua, Ni-ca-ra-gua, what a won-der-ful spot
3       -2*  3   3 -2*-2*  3
There's cof-fee and ba-na-nas 
3  -3  -3   -2  -2  -2
and a temp-’ra-ture hot
-3  3* -3  -3   3  3 -3  -3  -3  -3  -3*-3*-3*
So take a trip and on a ship go sail-ing a-way
4   4    4  4  1  1  1  1   2
A-cross the a-gua to Ma-na-gua, 
3 -3* -3 -2  -2 -2
Ni-ca-ra-gua, o-le.

REPEAT
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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