Hank Snow - Caribbean

      
 
 Recorded by Hank Snow
 Writer: Mitchell Torok
 
 KEY: B/HERE: C
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 1.  Have you ever been down to Haiti, when
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 The summer sun was sinkin'  low
 There's nothin' but romance, just everwhere you glance
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 And the native hearts are all a- glow
 But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene
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 They all stare like a statue out of  stone
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 And when they realize what's be- fore their eyes
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 The other  girls are left all a- lone.
 
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 2.  Down in the Caribbean, it's not a dream you're seein'
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 When you get a glimpse of the lady with the  charm
 But from miles away you can see her sway
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 To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that  forms.
 
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 3.  Up in a tree so high, way up in the sky
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 Sits a wide-eyed monkey on a  limb
 He wonders why the people go to so much trouble
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 Just to try to be like  him
 He doesn't understand, that it's a lady's hand
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 That makes a heart feel so sub- lime
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 But before too long, he starts  singing the song
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 And then he  gets in the Conga  line.
 
 4. Columbus searched for spices, but he missed the nicest
 Part of the Caribbean
 He didn't see the charms and the open arms
 It was the gold that he was seein'
 Oh, but I'm glad he missed, the sweetest thing I've kissed
 'Cause we're on our honeymoon
 I'm so sorry Chris, to talk about you like this
 But you were five-hundred years too soon.
 
 Note. Repeat verses 2 and 3.
 
 SOURCE: HANK SNOW-JUST KEEP A-MOVIN'/1955 RCA LPM-1113