NAT KING COLE - MONA LISA (Remastered) '61

LYRICS: "Mona Lisa" (1961 Version)

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?

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?

(INSTRUMENTAL 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!

*** "Mona Lisa" Cole recorded this song again in a stereo version with Ralph Carmichael and his Orchestra on March 30, 1961. ***

Nat King Cole - Nathaniel Adams Coles, March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965, singer, jazz pianist, songwriter, and actor. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. Loved by Italian Americans, According to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Frank Sinatra's star power opened doors for “all of us” literally and figuratively. In his heyday, he performed with almost every black idol of jazz, blues and swing: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr. They all became friends.

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