- 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
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
CHORUS
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
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
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
CHORUS
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
Angelina Angelina please bring down your concertina And play a welcome for me cause I ll be coming home from se...
Oh when the saints go marching in Yes when the saints go marching in Oh Lord I want to be ...
Dicen que por las noches nomas se le iba puro liorar dicen que no com ia Nomas se le iba en puro to...
Day o day ay ay o Day light come and we wan na go home Day me say day me say day me say day me say day m...
See the little baby Amen wrapped in a manger Amen On Christmas morning Amen Amen Amen See him in the temple Amen Tal...
A day in the life of a fool A sad and a long lonely day I walk the avenue And hope I ll run i...
I know you told me Such a long time ago That you don t want me You don t love me no more I wanna know Oh w...
Oh freedom oh freedom oh freedom over me And before I d be a slave I ll be buried in a my grave And go home to...
Angelique O Angelique O you mama s got to take you back Angelique O Angelique O teach you all the things you ...
Willow willow with your head hung down Are you weeping for me this morning Don t you know that my woman ...
