Perry Como

Sul mare luccica L'astro d'argento
Placida e' l'onda
Prospero e' il vento

Sul mare luccica
L'astro d'argento
Placida e' l'onda
Prospero e' il vento

Venite all'agile
Barchetta mia
Santa Lucia Santa Lucia...

Soft winds caress the sea,
Breezes so tender,
Make every dancing wave,
Gladly surrender!

Days here are heavenly,
Nights are pure ecstasy,
Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia!

Venite all'argine
barchette mie
Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia -

Papa loves mambo
Mama loves mambo
Look at 'em sway with it, gettin' so gay with it
Shoutin' "ol" with it, wow! (ooh!)

Papa loves mambo
(Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo
(Mama loves mambo)
Papa does great with it, swings like a gate with it
Evens his weight with it, now!

He goes to, she goes fro
He goes fast, she goes slow
He goes left 'n' she goes right
(Papa's lookin' for mama but mama is nowhere in sight)

Papa loves mambo
Mama loves mambo
Havin' their fling again, younger than Spring again
Feelin' that zing again, wow! (ooh!)

Papa loves mambo
(Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo
(Mama loves mambo)
Don't let her rumba and don't let her samba
'cause papa loves mama tonight (ooh!)

(Papa loves mambo)
(Mama loves mambo)



(Papa loves mambo)
(Mama loves mambo)



He goes to, she goes fro
He goes fast, she goes slow
He goes left 'n' she goes right
(Papa's lookin' for mama but mama is nowhere in sight) (ooh!)

Papa loves mambo
(Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo
(Mama loves mambo)
Havin' their fling again, younger than Spring again
Feelin' that zing again, wow! (ooh!)

(Papa loves mambo)
Mambo papa
(Mama loves mambo)
Mambo mama
(Don't let her rumba and don't let her samba)
'cause papa
Loves a mambo tonight

(ooh!)

Alone from night to night youll find me,
Too weak to break the chains that bind me,
I need no shackles to remind me,
Im just a prisoner of love!

For one command I stand and wait now,
From one whos master of my fate now,
I cant escape for its too late now,
Im just a prisoner of love!

Whats the good of my caring,
if someone is sharing those arms with me!
Although she has another,
I cant have another, for Im not free!

Shes in my dreams awake or sleeping,
Upon my knees to her Im creeping,
My very life is in her keeping,
Im just a prisoner of love . . .

Whats the good of my caring,
if someone is sharing those arms with me!
Although she has another,
I cant have another, for Im not free!

Shes in my dreams awake or sleeping,
Upon my knees to her Im creeping,
My very life is in her keeping,
Im just a prisoner of love . . .

Music by Russ Columbo and Clarence Gaskill,
with lyrics by Leo Robin and Published 1931