Tom: Gb major•
Verse 1
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Ballad written in shaky pen hand in school
copy book on a bus bumping around
the road on the shores of
Fiji going to the town of
Suva with
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti and his 11 year old son
Lorenzo.
Suva
B
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B
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C#
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Oh -ho, the
Australian lad dressed in red
Ferlinghetti, beard on his head
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Oh -ho, for the roar of the motor uphill
C#
Oh -ho, for the feathery grass standing still
Palm
Islands that rise from blue sea
B
Oh -ho, the breezy sky that hangs over me
F#
Oh -ho, the dirt road that gives us away
Away to
Fiji,
C#
Port
Suva, we go there today
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Oh -ho, the black lady so big and so fat
B
From eating the taro root,
pink hair, no hat
Indian wives in white cloth
C#
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Oh -ho, the green frog that
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Oh -ho, misty hills all
sun shining we've seen
Oh -ho,
B
palm -roof huts with doorsteps grass -green
F#
Oh -ho, the black cow,
head bent on the field
C#
Here by the old banyan,
bus stop squeaky -wheeled
The
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Fiji boy opens the beer with his teeth
B
The bottle sits down on the floor by his feet
F#
A cowrie -shelled purse and
Pall
Mall cigarette
C#
Low tide by the ocean road,
sand is still wet
Mabenga sits on the low sea
B
Her men walk through fire
for you and for me
F#
Oh ho, that last night
the round kava bowl
tasting the island's strange soul
F#
Oh -ho, for hibiscus, mail pouch on the nail
B
Oh -ho, for the palm frond
that waves at the
well
F#
Oh -ho, tin -roofed deserts
and drainpipes
in rows
Pacific
Development
F#
Oh -ho, blessed freedom on
Fiji's
Greenland
B
Oh -ho, virgin hills, coconuts in your hand
F#
Oh -ho, bless the pawpaw
and orchid that grows
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C#
Englishman's leftover rose
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But cursed be the merchants and
company cranks
B
Capitalists hiding behind
Hong
Kong's banks
Pan
Am and the hotel airways
C#
Their business is ruined for
Eden's always
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The wind that flaps the banana leaf, ho!
B
Cocks that peck in the garden and crow,
ho!
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For the switchbacks on red dirt hillsides
C#
Cows walk by the jungle and
grazing abide
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We roll over mountains,
rocks clank in the dust
B
Stop for bananas and pee as we must
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Oh, ho, the blue ocean,
what green peak we pass,
Down there the
White
Suva at last!
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