NEVER MIND THE NOISE IN THE MARKET
(Originally by Blake Alphonso Higgs / 
Added Lyrics: J. Barnes & Jessie Cavanaugh)


Blind Blake & His Royal Victoria Calypso Orch. - 1949
Debbie Reynolds - 1955
Pete Hanley - 1955




As recorded by DEBBIE REYNOLDS with The Naturels:

(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)

Never mind the noise in the market
Only mind the price of the fish
Remove your nose from the grindstone
Just do the thing that you wish

(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
(Doo-doo-wah, doo!)

There is a most remarkable island
Located in the South Seas
Where everybody lives twice as long
Because we do what we please

Some people think we are crazy
We live the life of a king
All day we rest from the night before
All night we dance and we sing

Never mind the noise in the market
Only mind the price of the fish
Remove your nose from the grindstone
Just do the thing that you wish

Sometimes the wind it is gusty
And blow the houses away
But too excited we never get
They blow right back the next day

We love to walk in the moonlight
We love to dance in the sun
We love our brokendown palm trees
And our multi-tanned mambo band (Ooh!)

(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)

Ooh, we got plenty bananas
Co-kee-nuts on the tree
We're happy here with the monkeys
And our simple philosophy

If life is getting too frantic
Everything going wrong
Come to us, your old beat up island
'Cause here's the place you belong

Never mind the noise in the market
Only mind the price of the fish
Remove your nose from the grindstone
Just do the thing that you wish

Never mind the noise in the market
Only mind the price of the fish
Remove your nose from the grindstone
Just do the thing that you wish


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Chorus as originally recorded by BLIND BLAKE:

Never mind the noise in the market
Only mind the price of the fish
Don't ever eat the red herring
Just get the thing that you wish



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2017)