Mona Lisa on Danny Couch Sings The Great American Classics

Mona Lisa

Performed by Danny Couch, originally by Nat King Cole

written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film Captain Carey, U.S.A..

From the Movie "Mona Lisa" Arranged by Nelson Riddle

Lyrics Transcribed by Lea Cook

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?

(Repeat *)
*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 was a Definitive American Movie Standard & an Academy Award-winning song
The soundtrack version by Nat King Cole spent 8 weeks as number 1 in the Billboard chart in the USA in 1950. In 1987, it was used as the theme of the British film Mona Lisa. Various artists, including Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and Nat King Cole's daughter Natalie Cole, have released cover versions of this song. Bruddah Iz (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole) also covered the song on the album "Alone in IZ World."

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