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I	A
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Sunrise in the Tropics	B
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Sol Sol mighty lord of the tropic zone	C
Here I wait with the trembling stars	D
To see thee once more take thy throne	C
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There the patient palm tree watching	E
Waits to say Good morn to thee	F
And a throb of expectation	G
Pulses through the earth and me	F
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Now o'er nature falls a hush	H
Look the East is all a blush	H
And a growing crimson crest	I
Dims the late stars in the west	I
Now a flood of golden light	J
Sweeps across the silver night	J
Swift the pale moon fades away	K
Before the light girt King of Day	K
See the miracle is done	G
Once more behold The Sun	G
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II	A
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Los Cigarillos	D
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This is the land of the dark eyed gente	K
Of the dolce far niente	K
Where we dream away	K
Both the night and day	K
At night time in sleep our dreams we invoke	L
Our dreams come by day through the redolent smoke	L
As it lazily curls	D
And slowly unfurls	D
From our lips	D
And the tips	D
Of our fragrant cigarillos	D
For life in the tropics is only a joke	L
So we pass it in dreams and we pass it in smoke	L
Smoke smoke smoke	L
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Tropical constitutions	D
Call for occasional revolutions	D
But after that's through	M
Why there's nothing to do	M
But smoke smoke	L
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For life in the tropics is only a joke	L
So we pass it in dreams and we pass it in smoke	L
Smoke smoke smoke	L
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III	A
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Teestay	M
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Of tropic sensations the worst	M
Is sin duda the tropical thirst	M
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When it starts in your throat and constantly grows	D
Till you feel that it reaches down to your toes	D
When your mouth tastes like fur	N
And your tongue turns to dust	M
There's but one thing to do	M
And do it you must	M
Drink teestay	M
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Teestay a drink with a history	F
A delicious delectable mystery	F
Cinco centavos el vaso senor	O
If you take one you will surely want more	O
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Teestay teestay	M
The national drink on a feast day	M
How it coolingly tickles	D
As downward it trickles	D
Teestay teestay	M
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And you wish as you take it down at a quaff	P
That your neck was constructed a la giraffe	P
Teestay teestay	M
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IV	P
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The Lottery Girl	Q
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Lottery lottery	F
Take a chance at the lottery	F
Take a ticket	M
Or better take two	M
Who knows what the future	N
May hold for you	M
Lottery lottery	F
Take a chance at the lottery	F
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Oh limpid eyed girl	Q
I would take every chance	D
If only the prize	D
Were a love flashing glance	D
From your fathomless eyes	D
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Lottery lottery	F
Try your luck at the lottery	F
Consider the size	D
Of the capital prize	D
And take tickets	D
For the lottery	F
Tickets senor Tickets senor	O
Take a chance at the lottery	F
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Oh crimson lipped girl	Q
With the magical smile	R
I would count that the gamble	S
Were well worth the while	R
Not a chance would I miss	D
If only the prize	D
Were a honey bee kiss	D
Gathered in sips	D
From those full ripened lips	D
And a love flashing glance	D
From your eyes	D
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V	F
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The Dancing Girl	Q
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Do you know what it is to dance	D
Perhaps you do know in a fashion	G
But by dancing I mean	T
Not what's generally seen	T
But dancing of fire and passion	G
Of fire and delirious passion	G
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With a dusky haired senorita	M
Her dark misty eyes near your own	C
And her scarlet red mouth	U
Like a rose of the south	U
The reddest that ever was grown	C
So close that you catch	V
Her quick panting breath	W
As across your own face it is blown	C
With a sigh and a moan	C
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Ah that is dancing	E
As here by the Carib it's known	C
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Now whirling and twirling	E
Like furies we go	X
Now soft and caressing	E
And sinuously slow	X
With an undulating motion	G
Like waves on a breeze kissed ocean	G
And the scarlet red mouth	U
Is nearer your own	C
And the dark misty eyes	D
Still softer have grown	C
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Ah that is dancing that is loving	E
As here by the Carib they're known	C
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VI	P
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Sunset in the Tropics	D
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A silver flash from the sinking sun	G
Then a shot of crimson across the sky	P
That bursting lets a thousand colors fly	P
And riot among the clouds they run	G
Deepening in purple flaming in gold	M
Changing and opening fold after fold	M
Then fading through all of the tints of the rose into gray	M
Till taking quick fright at the coming night	M
They rush out down the west	M
In hurried quest	M
Of the fleeing day	M
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Now above where the tardiest color flares a moment yet	M
One point of light now two now three are set	M
To form the starry stairs	D
And in her fire fly crown	Y
Queen Night on velvet slippered feet comes softly down	Y

James Weldon Johnson

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