Afro Blue - Mongo Santamaría and His Afro Cuban Drum Beaters/with Dizzy Gillespie/Cal Tjader/John Coltrane/Abbey Lincoln/The Derek Trucks Band/Dee Dee Bridgewater/Shigeharu Mukai/Dianne Reeves/Momo Wandel Soumah/Oscar Brown Jr.

Afro Blue

Dream of a land my soul is from

I hear a hand stroke on a drum

Shades of delight, cocoa hue, 

Rich as the night, Afro blue

Elegant boy, beautiful girl

Dancing for joy, elegant whirl

Shades of delight, cocoa hue, 

Rich as the night, Afro blue

Two young lovers are face to face with undulating grace

They gently sway, then slip away to some secluded place

Shades of delight, cocoa hue, 

Rich as the night, Afro blue

Whispering trees echo their sighs

Passionate pleas, tender replies

Shades of delight, cocoa hue, 

Rich as the night, Afro blue

Lovers in flight, upward they glide

Burst at the height, slowly subside

Shades of delight, cocoa hue, 

Rich as the night, Afro blue

And my slumbering fantasy assumes reality

Until it seems it's not a dream, the two are you and me

Shades of delight, cocoa hue, 

Rich as the night, Afro blue