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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