Aloha Heja He [English translation]

I've seen the whole world

From Singapore to Aberdeen

If you ask me what was the most beautiful (place)

I say Zanzibar

It was a hard crossing

I've just scrubbed the deck for ten weeks

I've cursed the world and spitted in the wind

And swallowed salty water

As we dropped the anchor

There was a heavenly quietness

And the sun was

Perpendicular to the sky

As I looked over the reeling

I thought I was dreaming

That there were thousand boats

And they held us

In the boats there were men and women

Their bodies glistened in the sun

And they were singing a song

That seemed me strangely familiar

But like that - I haden't already listened to it

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Aloha heja he, aloha heja he

aloha heja he

They moored their boats alongside

And with the wind there were blowing laughter

And the party already was underway

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I've seen the paradise

It was at 1910

The helmsman had the sailors on the mast

and the gonococcal tasted the purser but otherwise we were perfectly healthy

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