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Thread #36607   Message #2201883
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Nov-07 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Virgin Islands
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Virgin Islands (Edmundo Ros)
The above link is dead. However, I was able to transcribe this much of VIRGIN ISLANDS from a couple of sound samples:

You'd better leave your doctor bills, leave all your pills.
If you're ill, what's the use if you're wealthy?
You eat a dish of fungi (?) and fish callaloo,
It's delicious and you'll be so healthy.

CHORUS: You better take a trip to the Virgin Islands
And rid yourself of your worry.
When you're relaxing on the sand, life will be so grand,
You'll be happy in a hurry.

How can you hug and kiss in the town
When the bright 'lectric lights shining down
Give you no chance.
But, my child, you … of the full moon that shines on this island of romance.

[Songwriters credited are "Benjamin, Lamotta, Weiss." ASCAP clarifies this as Bennie Benjamin, Bill La Motta, and George David Weiss. They seem to be rather prolific songwriters.]