Island In the West Indies

Let's both of us pack up

Sail far from it all

Tired having to back up

To the wall

I know of one place where

Life really is fun

Where days are golden

And you're beholden to none

Let's take passage and run

Oh, there's an island down in the West Indies

Ten dollars can buy

Away from Reuben's and from Lindy's

'Neath a tropical, kaleidoscopical sky

We'll lie around all day and just be lazy

The world far behind

If that's not heaven then I'm crazy

With no taxes and with no axes to grind

No traffic jams

Under the palm trees by the sea

With breadfruit and yams

We'll never need the A&P

On that romantic isle in the West Indies

No airplanes above

We'll watch the turtles at their shindies

You and me and the Caribbean and love

Dee-dee-dee-dee

Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee

Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee

Oh, there's an island down in the West Indies

Ten dollars can buy

Away from Reuben's and from Lindy's

'Neath a tropical, kaleidoscopical sky

On that romantic isle in the West Indies

No airplanes above

We'll watch the turtles at their shindies

You and me and the Caribbean and love

Learn the lingoes of pink flamingoes

And love