She's A Latin From Manhattan

Written for: Go Into Your Dance (1935)
Performer: Al Jolson & Studio Chorus
Lyric: Al Dubin
Additional British lyric: Charles Dunn
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

Verse 1:

Fate sent her to me, over the sea from Spain;
Ah, she's the one in a million for me.
I found my romance when she went dancing by;
Ah, she must be a Castilian, si, si.
Is she from Havana or Madrid?
But something about her
Is making me doubt her,
I think I remember the kid.

Chorus:

She's a Latin from Manhattan,
You can tell by her "Mañana,"
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
And not Havana.
Though she does the rumba for us,
And she calls herself Dolores,
She was in a Broadway chorus,
Known as Susie Donahue.
She can take a tambourine and whack it,
But with her it's just a racket,
She's a "hoofer" from Tenth Avenue.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
She's a "Forty-Second Streeter,"
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
Señorita Donahue.

Verse 2 (from British sheet music):

With her castanets somehow she gets
The spirit ff those wonderful ladies from Spain.
As I watch her show, each night I know so well
That she has never seen Cadiz, it's plain.
Oh, her Spanish make-up is a gem,
But like a good gringo
She cackles a lingo,
You hear at the Bronx and The Stem;

[Chorus]