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Island In The Sun Lyrics

Artist: Harry Belafonte

Island In the Sun

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.

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

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

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

CHORUS

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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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

CHORUS

Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
ronhontz
worldnet.att.net

Comments/Interpretations

by JESS on 7/29/2011 11:58pm
HORRIBLE F SONG

by JESSSLYNNN on 7/29/2011 11:59pm
NICE SONG...AWESOME LYRICS

by milleni anjili on 2/4/2012 3:34am
I LOVE THIS SONG......BEAUTIFUL WORDS......