lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

MANGO SONG

(Joyce Winters) « © '64 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
Mango pick the mango from the tree hand the mango down to me
Put the mango in a sack put the sack upon my back
Everybody now come along help me sing my mango song mango

Take the mango to the square try to sell the mango there
If I do not sell it then take it back and try again
Everybody now come along help me sing my mango song mango

Pickin' mango is mighty hard children play in daddy's yard
Woman work in the kitchen cooking meals and patching britches
Everybody now come along help me sing my mango song mango

See the woman walking by see her basket sitting high
Basket high on woman head did you hear what the woman said
Everybody now come along help me sing my mango song mango
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2.

GIRL FROM SPANISH TOWN

(Marty Robbins) « © '63 Mariposa Music, BMI »
Past the Gulf Of Mexico is an island where
I lived and loved a long time ago
Disappointed in love I decided to roam
Sad was the day that I sailed far away from my home

Every dream I dream takes me again
To the island down in the Carribean
Back to happiness and my Spanish Town home
To the brown skinned girl that's causin' me
To be filled with grief and misery
If she takes me back I will never more roam

Brown skinned girl from Spanish town lives in my heart
I've tried to forget her but how do I start
Constantly she's on my mind both night and day
I've known only sorrow since I sailed away

Let the tide and trade winds carry me
To the girl I want to marry me
I can't live alone just on mem'ries I've known
I'm just like a bird that dosen't sing
Like a seagull with a broken wing
Take me off of this ship let me go home

Brown skinned girl from Spanish town lives in my heart...
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3.

BLUE SEA

(Don Blaine Bailey) « © '64 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
Blue sea carry me away
Take me from the girl I loved and lost today
And cool breeze let me feel your embrace
As I drift through the night I can see her loving face

Goodbye my love it's over we will never kiss again
For your father has picked another the son of a wealthy man
[ guitar ] Blue sea carry me away
Take me from the girl I loved and lost today
And blue sea as you rock me to sleep
Never let me wake let me slumber in the deep

Goodbye my love it's over we will never kiss again
Tonight the sea will claim me very soon will be the end
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4.

CALYPSO VACATION

(Bill D. Johnson) « © '64 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
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5.

CALYPSO GIRL

(Joe Babcock) « © '64 Mariposa Music, BMI »
Down in Jamaica where the soft winds blow
I took a trip it was a long time ago
From distant shores the music gently played
And I was hypnotized by a dark skinned girl that danced and whirled
Quickly I knew I was in love with that calypso girl

Dance and whirl calypso girl you could never give your heart
Dance and dine and drink the wine
But someday you will know what makes the lonely teardrops start

She danced in Del Camino Inn each night
And how I longed to kiss and hold her tight
Her sparkling eyes were burning just for me
We celebrated and with kisses warm she led me on
She promised she would wait for me while I was gone

Dance and whirl calypso girl...

The night I left she said she loved me so
And went into another's arms I know
They raised their glass and drank a toast to love
And then she danced for him with eyes that tempt and form that whirls
For no one love could hold the heart of calypso girl

Dance and whirl calypso ...

Back to Jamaica I did go one day
Down to Camino Inn to hear them play
Outside the door was a woman dressed in rags
No one would care to see that beggar woman dance and whirl
It broke my heart to know it was my calypso girl

Dance and whirl calypso girl...
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6.

NATIVE GIRL

(Jean Pruett) « © '64 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
On an island far away where the tropic breezes play
Waits a dark eyed native girl the sweetest girl in all the world

I still miss her more each day and the day I sailed away
I recall her last emnrace I see the tear stains on her face

I'm going back and find her we take the vows that bind her
We take the vows that make us one we live on island in the sun
[ guitar ] Native girl loves me I know native girl I'm missin' so
Just for her my love still burns native girl I must return

I'm going back and find her...
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7.

BAHAMA MAMA

(Bill D. Johnson) « © '64 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
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8.

TAHITIAN BOY

(Lee Emerson) « © '64 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
This big city I don't like it don't like me
Why did I board that sailing ship on Tahiti
I ask man in uniform which way your place
I show people picture of your pretty face

City girl with golden curl now where are you
Tahitian boy follow like you tell him to
Now I stand and call for many times your name
I guess maybe time and distance made you change
[ guitar ] Why did you make island boy make mistake
Tomorrow morning sailing ship I must take
Island music and the beach made you talk wrong
I must return to island now where I belong

City girl with golden curl now where are you...
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9.

KINGSTON GIRL

(Don Winters) « © '63 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
Just another night and day then I'll see Kingston Bay
And when I see Kingston Bay I'll see my Kingston woman
I'll see my Kingston girl

I work on boat that sails the sea Kingston woman waits for me
Waits for me to see the world I want my Kingston woman
I want my Kingston girl

I wish I never leave my home Kingston Town where I belong
Kingston girl who loves me so the one I hurt when I go
This was a long long time ago

Soon we walk on golden sand Kingston woman hold my hand
When the moon is shining bright I'll kiss my Kingston woman
I'll kiss my Kingston girl

Just another night and day then I'll see Kingston Bay
And when I see Kingston Bay I'll see my Kingston woman
I'll see my Kingston girl
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10.

BACK TO MONTEGO BAY

(Joyce Winters) « © '63 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
Over blue mountain I must go back to the woman I love so
I told her I'd return someday I'd return to Montego Bay

I left Montego Bay fortune to find for the woman I'd love to make mine
Now my fortune I have found I'm going up blue mountain then I'm going down

To Montego Bay Montego Bay I left my woman in Montego Bay
Montego Bay Montego Bay I'm going back to Montego Bay
[ guitar ] If it takes a hundred days and a hundred nights
Putting my left in front of my right
Over blue mountain I will go back to the woman I love so

Montego Bay Montego Bay I'm going back to Montego Bay
Montego Bay Montego Bay I'm going back to Montego Bay
I'm going back to Montego Bay I'm going back to Montego Bay
I'm going back to Montego Bay
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11.

WOMAN GETS HER WAY

(Joe Babcock) « © '64 Mariposa Music, BMI »
(Woman gets her way most every time)

Man holds his head up high builds his castles to the skies
One kiss can bring him down make his foolish head go spinnin' around

Woman woman gets her way model man like a piece of clay
Even makes him like it fine woman gets her way most every time

Man makes the wheels go on cuts the cane and tills the ground
Then he gets his weekly pay woman spends it all in just one day

Woman woman gets her way...
[ guitar ] There is no bigger fool than the man who thinks he rules
Little does he realize that he's just a slave to two brown eyes

Woman woman gets her way...

When I settle down someday and around me children play
I'll be king right from the start long as she will let me play the part

Woman woman gets her way...
Woman gets her way most every time
Woman gets her way most every time
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12.

SWEET BIRD OF PARADISE

(Lee Samich) « © '64 Mariposa Music, BMI »
Love with its wings flies far beyond my reach
Love hear my call fly closer I beseach

Oh fly to me sweet bird of Paradise
Don't let me be life's empty sacrifice
Why must you be always a mystery
Oh fly to me sweet bird of Paradise
[ vibes ] Love with its wings flies far beyond the blue
Love heard no call so I cannot persue

Farewell to Thee sweet bird of Paradise
You've let me be fife's empty sacrifice
Now all you'd be is just a memory
Farewell to Thee sweet bird of Paradise
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