Mona Lisa

Album: The Greatest Hits (1950)
Charted: 1
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  • 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?

    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 Writer/s: Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Anand Maharajh from MontrealYes Keith, those were the days. I would love to hear a version with that intro. I have a copy of stardust that begins with: "And now the purple dusk of twilight time
    Steals across the meadows of my heart ....." wow just great!!! look at this: https://youtu.be/NIDX18Xl16s
    just pure magic. I can die now (but I won't).
  • Keith Budge from Wellington Reguin New ZealandrI have a manuscript for Mona Lisa, (Sheet Music Direct) that has an eight bar introduction (Voice ad lib) begins "In a village....) and ends......What does she want? No one knows?) I am unable to find a recording of this song which includes this introduction. They all begin "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa....". HAS ANYONE recorded the song with the eight bar introduction?
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 8th 1963, Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled "Mona Lisa" was exhibited in the United States for the first time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
    Four years earlier in 1959 two rocking covered versions of "Mona Lisa" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; Carl Mann's version peaked at #25 {for 1 week} on August 10th and then three weeks later on August 31st Conway Twitty's version reached #29 {for 1 week}...
    R.I.P. Mr. Twitty, born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, {1933 - 1993} and Mr. Mann will celebrate his 73rd birthday come next August 22nd {2015}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyNat King Cole's first No. 1 song came when he was the leader of the The King Cole Trio; the song was "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons", it reached No.1 on February 15th, 1947 and had a one week run!!! {In 1958 a cover version by Sam Cooke peaked at No. 17}
  • Mike from Franklin County, PaThe song is refered to the painting , Mona Lisa (real name: "La Giaconda" ), a well known popular paingting by Italian - Renaisance artist Leonardo da Vinci . The woman in the painting is the wife of the Italian Merchant , Francisco di Giocondo ; a merchant Leonardo met. He asked him if he could paint a picture of his wife , and was giving permission . Leonardo actually painted the picture with her sitting at the left and facing right ; but because his vision caused everything to look the opposite way , he saw and painted her sitting right and facing left. ..The reason why she (Mona)doesn't have any eyebrows , is because it was a fashion back in that time for women to pluck them. ..When da Vinci drew the outline of the figure before painting , he drew over the same drawing until he got the picture he wanted ; then he painted over the drawing. Leonardo da Vinci was known as an artist , inventor , mathmetician , scientist , and architech. One of his iventions was the very first "Flying Machine".
  • Darrell from EugeneI admit it, I have often had dreams about commandeering a jet or a helicopter, flying to France, stealing the Mona Lisa, selling it to a filthy rich Middle Eastern oil sheikh and getting away with it scot-free. By the way, that was before 9/11 and the seemingly endless strife, terrorism and military involvement in the Mideast and the security at the Louvre, which I liken to that of a "supermax" federal prison.
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