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- Island In the Sun
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- Artist: Harry Belafonte (peak Billboard position # 30 in 1957)
- Words and Music by Harry Belafonte and Lord Burgess
- Title song from the 1957 film starring James Mason, Joan Collins, Dorothy
- Dandridge, Michael Rennie, and Belafonte.
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- This is my island in the sun
- Where my people have toiled since time begun
- I may sail on many a sea
- Her shores will always be home to me
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- CHORUS
- Oh, island in the sun
- Willed to me by my father's hand
- All my days I will sing in praise
- Of your forest, waters, your shining sand
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- As morning breaks the heaven on high
- I lift my heavy load to the sky
- Sun comes down with a burning glow
- Mingles my sweat with the earth below
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- CHORUS
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- I see woman on bended knee
- Cutting cane for her family
- I see man at the waterside
- Casting nets at the surging tide
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- CHORUS
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- I pray the day will never come
- When I can't awake to the sound of drum
- Never let me miss carnival
- With calypso songs philosophical
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- CHORUS
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- <humming to end>
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- Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
- ronhontz@worldnet.att.net
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