[ti:Brown Skin Girl]
[ar:Harry Belafonte]
[al:Only For You Vol 1]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Brown Skin Girl (Remastered) - Harry Belafonte
[00:05.67]Everything to keep me from sleepin'
[00:08.18]A lot of sailor boys they were leavin'
[00:10.89]And everybody there they were jumpin'
[00:13.48]To hear the sailor boys in our chorus singin'
[00:18.42]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
[00:24.36]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
[00:29.44]I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
[00:34.16]And if I don't come back
[00:36.86]Stay home and mind baby
[00:40.14]Now be Americans made an invasion
[00:42.84]We thought it was a help to the island
[00:45.47]Until they left from here on vacation
[00:48.14]They left de native boy home to mind their children
[00:53.68]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
[00:59.50]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
[01:04.64]I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
[01:09.39]And if I don't come back
[01:11.79]Stay home and mind baby
[01:15.31]Now I tell you de story 'bout Millie
[01:17.85]Well she made a nice blue eyed baby
[01:20.93]And dey say she fancy the mother
[01:23.09]But the blue eyed baby ain't know she father
[01:49.26]Now de Americans all have their pleasure
[01:51.71]While the music played to their leisure
[01:54.42]And Everybody there they were jumpin'
[01:56.96]To hear the sailor boys in our chorus singin'
[02:01.86]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
[02:07.29]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
[02:12.77]I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
[02:17.42]And if I don't come back
[02:19.93]Stay home and mind baby
[02:23.99]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
[02:28.59]Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby