MONA LISA
From the film "After Midnight"
(Jay Livingston / Ray Evans)

Nat 'King' Cole (with Les Baxter & his Orchestra)

Also recorded by: 
Bruce Abbott; Ronnie Aldrich; Ray Anderson; Mario Ruíz Armengol; 
John Arpin; James Austin; Guy Barker; Bill Black; Stanley Black; 
Joe Bourne; James Brown; Ray Brown; Johnny Burnette; Ace Cannon; 
... and many others.



Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only `cos you're lonely they have blamed you
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile
Do you smile to tempt a lover Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there, and they die there
Are you warm, are you real Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.

(Orchestral Break)

Do you smile to tempt a lover Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there, and they die there
Are you warm, are you real Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa.


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - January 2005)


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As recorded by Shakin' Stevens:



Well, Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile.
Is it only `cause you're lonely they have blamed you
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?

Well, is your smile to tempt a lover Mona Lisa,
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep.
They just lie there, and they die there.
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?

(Orchestral Break)

Well, in a villa in a little Old Italian town
Lives a girl whose beauty shames the rose.
Many yearn to love her but their hopes all tumble down.
What does she want?  I guess nobody knows!

Oh, is your smile to tempt a lover Mona Lisa,
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Are you warm, are you real,  Mona Lisa,
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?


(Contributed by Ferda Dolunay - April 2006)


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