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ISLE OF CAPRI
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Romantic and nostalgic, with an amusing twist at the end, "Isle of Capri" is a product of the famed British songwriting team of Will Grosz and Jimmy Kennedy. Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians introduced the ballad in the U.S.A. i n 1934, and Xavier Cugat and his orchestra popularized it further through their nightclub appearances and recordings. But it was the raucous swing version of Wingy Manone in 1935 that brought the song its greatest fame and gave the one-armed trumpeter his first hit recording.
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'Twas on the Isle of Ca-pri that I found her,
Be-neath the shade of an old wal-nut tree.
Oh, I can still see the flow'rs bloom-ing round her,
Where we met on the Isle of Ca-pri.
She was as sweet as a rose at the dawn-ing,
But some-how fate had-n't meant her for me.
And though I sailed with the tide in the morn-ing,
Still my heart's on the Isle of Ca-pri.
Sum-mer-time was near-ly o-ver.
Blue I-tal-ian sky a-bove;
I said, "La-dy, I'm a rov-er,
Can you spare a sweet word of love?"
She whis-pered soft-ly, "It's best not to lin-ger,"
And then as I kissed her hand I could see
She wore a plain gold-en ring on her fin-ger;
'Twas good-bye on the Isle of Ca-pri.
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MIDI Music Arranged by:
Frank "Grandpa" Schober
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