[1st verse:]
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[Tony:] I lik-a you, Marie
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[Marie:] I lik-a you, Tony
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[Tony:] We gonna mak-a marriage soon
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[Marie:] Mak-a da nice-a honeymoon
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[Tony:] After I marry you
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[Marie:] What are you gonna do?
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[1st refrain:]
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[Tony:]
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I'll tak-a you back with me
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Back to sunny Italy
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[Marie:]
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That's where I would like to be
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In the old country
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[Tony:] Across the sea
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[Marie:] No more you make the organ grind
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[Tony:] I leave the org' behind
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[Marie:] I'll cook spaghetti
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[Tony:] That's very good, Eddie
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[Marie:] The nice Italian kind
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[Tony:] We'll raise-a da family
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[Marie:] They will look like you and me
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[Tony:] How many we have, Marie?
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[Marie:] One, two or three
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[Tony:] Plenty enough for me
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[Marie:]
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What will we do with the monk'? They'll never let him pass
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[Tony:] We'll give the monk to Missus Vernon Cas'
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[Both:] And sail back to sunny Italy
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[2nd verse:]
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[Tony:] We'll have a little wop
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[Marie:] Someone to call you "pop"
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[Tony:] He'll look-a like his daddy did
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[Marie:] Gee! but he'll be a homely kid
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[Tony:] We'll call-a him Tony
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[Marie:] Maybe he'll be a she!
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[alternate lines in 2nd REFRAIN:]
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[Tony:] We'll tell-a da family
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[Marie:] They must never cross the sea
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[Tony:] The money in this country
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[Marie:] Is not so free
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[Tony:] As it's supposed to be
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[Marie:]
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We'll say the barber shop business, it never pays
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[Tony:] Ev'ryone here, they use the safety raz'
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[Both:] So we came to sunny Italy
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I'll Take You Back To Italy
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| Irving Berlin |
