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Intro: E E A B B A E (repeat)
MI LA SI
IA ORA TE NA-TURA [English translation: below]
SI LA MI LA SI
E MEA A-ROFA TEIE AO NEI
MI LA SI
IA ORA TE NA-TURA
SI LA MI LA SI
E MEA A-ROFA TEIE AO NEI
MI RE
I know I don't get there often enough
MI RE
But God knows I surely try
MI RE
It's a magic kind of medicine
LA SOL MI
That no doctor could prescribe
MI RE
I used to rule my world from a pay phone
MI RE
And ships out on the sea
MI
But now times are rough
RE
And I got too much stuff
LA SOL MI
Can't explain the likes of me
Chorus
MI LA SI MI
But there's this one particular harbor
LA SI MI
So far but yet so near
LA SI MI LA
Where I see the days as they fade away
LA SI MI
And finally disappear
SI
But now I think about the good times
MI
Down in the Caribbean sunshine
SI
In my younger days I was so bad
SI LA MI
Laughin' about all the fun we had
SI
I've seen enough to feel the world spin
MI
Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins
SI
Listen to the drummers and the night sounds
SI LA MI
Listen to the singers make the world go round
(SOLO [repeats chorus chords])
IA ORA TE NATURA
E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI
IA ORA TE NATURA
E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI
Lakes below the mountains
Flow into the sea
Like oils applied to canvas
They permeate through me
And there's that one particular harbor
Sheltered from the wind
Where the children play on the shore each day
And all are safe within
A most mysterious calling harbor
So far but yet so near
Where I see the day when my hair's full gray
And I finally disappear
IA ORA TE NATURA [translation:]
E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI NATURE LIVES (LIFE TO NATURE)
IA ORA TE NATURA HAVE PITY FOR THE EARTH
E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI (LOVE THE EARTH)
UA PAU TE MAITAI NO TE FENUA BOUNTY OF THE LAND IS EXHAUSTED
TE ZAI NOA RA TE ORA O TE MITIE BUT THERE'S STILL ABUNDANCE
IN THE SEA
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