MY QUEEN OF SMILES (DANAI MORAITI) By Stephen Hereford

I was inspired to write this song shortly after I had first watched a video by Danai Moraiti which was her performing a Greek song "i garsona (Panos Tountas)" on her electric piano. What really captured my heart was her most beautiful smile at the end of her performance. I have never seen such a smile in all of this world. From that moment on, I ordained her to be my QUEEN OF SMILES !!!! .... That was well over a year ago as I had encountered a problem after I had already sang the lyrics that I had written for this song. I didn't know then as I do not know now, how to pronounce her name in English .... A most embarrassing dilemma .... In English, the combination of "ai" creates a long vowel "A"sound but her name is in Greek. I spent over a month researching her name on Google and I asked people who were European but nobody knew for sure and so I abandoned this song. I didn't know Danai as well back then and I did not wish to mispronounce her name but we are such good friends now that I feel more comfortable in taking this risk. If I am wrong on the pronunciation of her name, I will then wear a tutu and dance the Nutcracker for DANAI as we go fishing. <br /> <br /> You can see and hear more of Danai here https://www.youtube.com/user/danai2014 <br />LYRICS <br />Queen of smiles. My Queen of Smiles. Danai is my Queen of smiles. <br />Queen of smiles. My Queen of smiles. Danai is my Queen of smiles. <br /> <br />Danai and me go fishing by the sea ... She and me ... "She and me." <br />We shall catch a fish or maybe 2 or 3 ... We'll see ... "We shall see." <br />I'll bring the poles and she'll bring the worms. <br />I'll bait the hooks and then we'll take turns <br />casting our lines out into the bay <br />where we shall fish onto the break of day. <br /> <br />Queen of smiles. My Queen of Smiles. Danai is my Queen of smiles. <br />Queen of smiles. My Queen of smiles. Danai is my Queen of smiles.