Have you ever been down to Haiti   When the summer sun was sinkin' low   There's nothing but romance   Just everywhere you glance      And the native hearts are all aglow   But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene   They all stare like a statue out of stone   When they realize what's before their eyes the other girls are left all alone      Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein'   When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm   And from miles away you can see her sway   To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms      Up in a tree so high way up in the sky   Sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb   He wonders why the people go to so much trouble   Just to try to be like him      He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand   That makes a heart feel so sublime   And before too long he starts singing the song   And then he gets in the Conga line      Columbus searched for spices   But he missed the nicest part of the Caribbean   He didn't see the charms and the open arms   It was the gold that he was seein'      But I'm glad he missed the sweetest thing I've kissed   'Cause we're on our honeymoon   And I'm so sorry Chris to talk about you like this   But you were five hundred years too soon      Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein'   When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm   And from miles away you can see her sway   To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms