Caribbean-Hank Snow/The Singing Ranger/His Rainbow Ranch Boys

[ti:Caribbean] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:The Essential Hank Snow (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Caribbean - Hank Snow/The Singing Ranger/His Rainbow Ranch Boys [00:01.79]Written by：Mitchell Tolock [00:03.58]Have you ever been down to Haiti [00:05.91]When the summer sun was sinkin' low [00:09.44]There's nothing but romance [00:10.66]Just everywhere you glance [00:12.16]And the native hearts are all aglow [00:15.34]But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene [00:18.20]They all stare like a statue out of stone [00:21.30]When they realize what's before [00:23.51]Their eyes the other girls are left all alone [00:27.08]Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein' [00:30.33]When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm [00:32.95]And from miles away you can see her sway [00:36.14]To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms [00:39.17]Up in a tree so high way up in the sky [00:41.93]Sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb [00:44.97]He wonders why the people go to so much trouble [00:47.95]Just to try to be like him [00:50.99]He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand [00:53.79]That makes a heart feel so sublime [00:56.93]And before too long he starts singing the song [00:59.85]And then he gets in the Conga line [01:02.75] [01:27.08]Columbus searched for spices [01:28.64]But he missed the nicest part of the Caribbean [01:32.34] [01:32.90]He didn't see the charms and the open arms [01:35.79]It was the gold that he was seein' [01:38.85]But I'm glad he missed the sweetest thing I've kissed [01:41.83]'Cause we're on our honeymoon [01:44.90]And I'm so sorry Chris to talk about you like this [01:47.98]But you were five hundred years too soon [01:50.88]Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein' [01:53.80]When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm [01:56.66]And from miles away you can see her sway [01:59.82]To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms [02:02.69]Up in a tree so high way up in the sky [02:05.62]Sits a wide-eyed monkey on a limb [02:08.61]He wonders why the people go to so much trouble [02:11.65]Just to try to be like him [02:13.94] [02:14.62]He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand [02:17.58]That makes a heart feel so sublime [02:20.70]But before too long he starts singing the song [02:23.59]And then he gets in the Conga line