Manuel’s Love Song from Captains Courageous

“Manuel’s love song“ was written by Gus Kahn and Franz Waxman. The words to the song are, I believe, a combination of traditional and written ones, with the tune and the chorus being very similar to that found in Meredith and Anderson’s “Folksongs of Australia“ in their song “The Little Fish.“ They report the song to be Portuguese in origin, but fairly widely known in North Queensland, Australia. Here is the Song Spencer Tracy Sang in the 1937 Picture Captains Courageous “Yeah, ho, little fish Don’t cry,