A popular song from 1935
Words by Ira Gershwin
Music by Vernon Duke
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Let’s both of us pack up
Sail far from it all
Tired having to back up
To the wall
I know of a place where
Life really is fun
Where days are golden
And you’re beholden to none
Let’s take passage and run
Refrain:
Oh, there’s an island down in the West Indies
Ten dollars can buy
Away from Reuben’s and from Lindy’s
‘Neath a tropic, 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 bread-fruit and yams
We’ll never need the A. and P.
In that romantic isle in the West Indies
No airplanes above
We’ll watch the turtles at their shindies
You an’ me an’ the Caribbean and love