Robin Levinson - Sorrento Cafe Lyrics

The music that he plays
Reminds of younger days
Of lands so far away

His olives and their oil
Are products of the toil
Of peasants on low pay

His wife and family
They wait impatiently
His summons to obey

So he dreams of seas of blue
To masquerade the view
From the Sorrento Cafe'

For Florence and Amalfi
That jewel beside the sea
He strums his mandolin

Venice and Napoli, across to Sicily
The memories all rush in

For Rome and Tivoli, Milan and Assisi
The churches and their nuns

Pisa down to Capri, good wine and family
He strums and strums and strums

And now he contemplates
His new Australian mates
The red, dry dusty sand

The sheep and kangaroo
The emu, cockatoo
His new adopted land

The drover with his dog
The shearer and sly grog
And all the visions grand

But thru the dust and haze
His tears distort his gaze
From the Sorrento Cafe'

For Florence and Amalfi
That jewel beside the sea
He strums his mandolin

Venice and Napoli, across to Sicily
The memories all rush in

For Rome and Tivoli, Milan and Assisi
The churches and their nuns

Pisa down to Capri, good wine and family
He strums and strums and strums

For Florence and Amalfi
That jewel beside the sea
He strums his mandolin

Venice and Napoli, across to Sicily
The memories all rush in

For Rome and Tivoli, Milan and Assisi
The churches and their nuns

Pisa down to Capri, good wine and family
He strums and strums and strums