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                 Island in the Sun – Harry Belafonte
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Written by: Belafonte/Burgess
From: “Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean” (1957)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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Capo: 2nd fret
Play: C
Key: D
For chords in original key transpose +2


CHORDS
          E-A-
C/G       3-x-

D-G-B-e
2-0-1-0

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[Verse 1]
             
This is my isl

    
and in the sun
            
Where my peopl

              
e have toiled 

      
since time beg

un
             
I may sail on 


many a sea
           
Her shores wil

            (
l always be ho

)
me to me


[Chorus]
           
 Oh, island in

 the sun
             
Willed to me b

     
y my father's 

hand
             
All my days I 

     
will sing in p

raise
            
Of your forest

              
s, waters, you

             
r shining sand

    |  |  |
s


[Verse 2]
             
 As morning br

    
eaks the heave

n on high
            
 I lift my hea

       
vy load to the

 sky
             
 Sun comes dow

         
n with a burni

ng glow
           
Mingles my swe

            
at with the ea

      
rth below


[Chorus]
           
 Oh, island in

 the sun
             
Willed to me b

     
y my father's 

hand
             
All my days I 

     
will sing in p

raise
            
Of your forest

              
s, waters, you

             
r shining sand

    |  |  |
s


[Verse 3]
             
 I see woman o

  
n bended knees
            
Cutting cane f

       
or her family
             
 I see man at 

    
the water side
           
Casting nets a

            
t the surging 


tide


[Chorus]
           
 Oh, island in

 the sun
             
Willed to me b

     
y my father's 

hand
             
All my days I 

     
will sing in p

raise
            
Of your forest

              
s, waters, you

             
r shining sand

    |  | % |
s


[Verse 4]
            
 I hope the da

       
y will never c

ome
            
That I can't a

            
wake to the so

und of drum
            
 Never let me 

     
miss carnival
         
With calypso s

           
ongs philosoph

 
ical


[Chorus]
         
Oh, island in 

the sun
           
Willed to me b

     
y my father's 

hand
            
All my days I 

     
will sing in p

raise
            
Of your forest

              
s, waters, you

  
r shining sand

s


[Coda]
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Mmh, mmh, ..

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Mmh, mmh ...

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               (break)