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For Marius Skatelborough |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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I know I don't get there often enough |
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But God knows I surely try |
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It's a magic kind of medicine |
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That no doctor could prescribe |
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I used to rule my world from a pay phone |
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Ships out on the sea |
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But now times are rough |
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And I got too much stuff |
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Can't explain likes of me |
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Chorus: |
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But there's this one particular harbour |
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So far but yet so near |
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Where I see the days as they fade away |
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And finally disappear |
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But now I think about the good times |
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Down in the Caribbean sunshine |
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In my younger days I was so bad |
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Laughin' about all the fun we had |
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I seen enough to feel the world spin |
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Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins |
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Listen to the drummers and the night sounds |
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Listen to the singers make the world go 'round |
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(pan solo) |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Lakes below the mountain |
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Flow into the sea |
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Like oils applied to canvas |
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They permeate through me |
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And there's that one particular harbour |
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Sheltered from the wind |
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Where the children play on the shore each day |
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And all are safe within |
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Most mysterious calling harbour |
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So far but yet so near |
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I can see the day when my hair's full gray |
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And I finally disappear |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ia ora te natura (Ua pau te maitai no te fenua) |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ia ora te natura (Ua pau te maitai no te fenua) |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei, hey now, hey now, hey now |
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Ia ora te natura |
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E mea arofa teie ao nei |
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Ua pau te maitai no te fenua [Bounty of the land is exhausted] |
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Te zai noa ra te ora o te mitie [But there's still abundance in the sea] |
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Ua pau te maitai no te fenua |
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Te zai noa ra te ora o te mitie |
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*Notes: |
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Background Vocals: Timothy B. Schmit and The Chorale Epherona |
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Additional Percussion and Congas: Errol 'Crusher' Bennett |
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Pahue and Toere Drums: Jimmy Buffett, Jim Shea, and Sam Clayton (The |
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Boom Boom Boys) |
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Language is Tahitian |
