Original Trinidad Steel Band - Island in the sun 1993 video free download

Original Trinidad Steel Band - Island in the sun 1993

Original by Harry Belafonte 1957

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

Oh, island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest, your waters, your shining sand

I see woman on bended knee

Cutting cane for her family

I see man by the waterside

Casting nets at the surging tide

Oh, island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest, your waters, your shining sand

(Instrumental)

Oh, island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest, your waters, your shining sand

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 and philosophical

Oh, island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest, your waters, your shining sand

Oh, island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest, your waters, your shining sand