Down In The Caribbean

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Have you ever been down to Haiti
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When the summer sun was sinkin' low

There's nothing but romance just everwhere you glance
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And the native hearts are all aglow


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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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When they realize what's before their eyes
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The other girls are left all alone

[Verse]
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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

And 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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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

[Verse]
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He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand
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That makes a heart feel so sublime
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And before too long he starts singing the song
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And then he gets in the Conga line


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Columbus searched for spices but he missed the nicest
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Part of the Caribbean

He didn't see the charms and the open arms
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It was the gold that he was seein'

[Verse]
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But I'm glad he missed the sweetest thing I've kissed
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'Cause we're on our honeymoon
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I'm so sorry Chris to talk about you like this
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But you were five hundred years too soon