Caribbean-Hank Snow/D.R

[ti:Caribbean] [ar:Hank Snow/D.R] [al:Nashville Country School] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Caribbean - Hank Snow/D.R [00:07.02]Have you ever been down to Haiti [00:09.79]When the summer sun was sinkin' low [00:12.31] [00:13.36]There's nothing but romance [00:14.97]Just everywhere you glance [00:16.51]And the native hearts are all aglow [00:18.46] [00:19.70]But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene [00:22.86]They all stare like a statue out of stone [00:25.28] [00:26.14]When they realize what's before [00:28.65]Their eyes the other girls are left all alone [00:31.41] [00:32.40]Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein' [00:35.62]When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm [00:37.94] [00:38.74]And from miles away you can see her sway [00:42.10]To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms [00:44.25] [00:45.05]Up in a tree so high way up in the sky [00:48.23]Sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb [00:50.70] [00:51.34]He wonders why the people go to so much trouble [00:54.76]Just to try to be like him [00:56.82] [00:57.73]He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand [01:00.89]That makes a heart feel so sublime [01:02.80] [01:04.06]And before too long he starts singing the song [01:07.22]And then he gets in the Conga line [01:09.44] [01:23.08]Columbus searched for spices [01:24.78]But he missed the nicest part of the Caribbean [01:27.69] [01:29.34]He didn't see the charms and the open arms [01:32.45]It was the gold that he was seein' [01:34.68] [01:35.64]But I'm glad he missed the sweetest thing I've kissed [01:38.83]'Cause we're on our honeymoon [01:40.41] [01:41.94]I'm so sorry Chris to talk about you like this [01:45.15]You were five hundred years too soon [01:47.35] [01:48.17]Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein' [01:51.41]When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm [01:53.78] [01:54.50]And from miles away you can see her sway [01:57.70]To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms [02:00.07] [02:00.73]Up in a tree so high way up in the sky [02:03.61] [02:04.16]Sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb [02:06.28] [02:06.95]He wonders why the people go to so much trouble [02:10.30]Just to try to be like him [02:12.35] [02:13.30]He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand [02:16.44]That makes a heart feel so sublime [02:18.32] [02:19.62]And before too long he starts singing the song [02:22.75]And then he gets in the Conga line