Caribbean-Mitchell Torok

[ti:Caribbean] [ar:Mitchell Torok] [al:The 1950s British Hit Parades - The Hits We Missed] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Caribbean - Mitchell Torok [00:05.06]Oh Have you ever been down to Haiti [00:07.82]When the summer sun was sinkin' low [00:11.08] [00:11.83]There's nothing but romance [00:13.34]Just everywhere you glance [00:15.26]And the native hearts are all aglow [00:18.09] [00:18.60]But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene [00:21.77]They all stare like a statue out of stone [00:24.79] [00:25.47]When they realize what's before [00:27.98]Their eyes the other girls are left all alone [00:31.61] [00:32.23]Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein' [00:35.55]When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm [00:38.73] [00:39.26]And from miles away you can see her sway [00:42.58]To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms [00:45.14] [00:45.82]Up in a tree so high way up in the sky [00:49.00]Sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb [00:51.83] [00:52.50]He wonders why the people go to so much trouble [00:55.66]Just to try to be like him [00:59.25]He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand [01:02.54]That makes a heart feel so sublime [01:05.01] [01:06.26]And before too long he starts singing the song [01:09.21]And then he gets in the Conga line [01:12.39] [01:47.28]He didn't see the charms and the open arms [01:50.49]It was the gold that he was seein' [01:54.16]But I'm glad he missed the sweetest thing I've kissed [01:57.49]'Cause we're on our honeymoon [02:01.00]And I'm so sorry Chris to talk about you like this [02:04.41]But you were five hundred years too soon [02:07.29] [02:07.90]Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein' [02:11.14]When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm [02:14.09] [02:14.89]And from miles away you can see her sway [02:18.31]To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms