Not too long ago I decided I would go
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Driftin' with the tide down where the trade winds blow
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I went sailin' in on a southwest wind from some place I don't recall.
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Glad to be on solid ground, just as the sun was goin' down
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I stepped out to take a look around.
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I had a Mai Tai in my hand and I was lookin' at the moon
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Listening to a band play some south sea island tunes
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There was a warm breeze blowin' and the rum was flowin', you could almost touch the stars.
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All at once it came to me nowhere in my memory
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That I had ever felt so fine and free.
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Then she came from out of nowhere
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A brown-skinned girl with flowers in her hair
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She looked at me awhile
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And then she smiled a special smile
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And it went right through me when she swayed up to me
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There was something she wanted to say
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She said: a¢æ?I can make your dreams come true'
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a¢æ?Come and let me welcome you to paradise'.
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She took me by the hand, I didn't even know her name
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She led me through the sand down this little moonlit lane
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And on out back was a small grass shack and as we got to the door
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With the palm trees thrashin' and the trade winds crashin', the waves down on the shore
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She turned around and she pulled me down and she said it just once more.
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She said: a¢æ?I can make your dreams come true'
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a¢æ?Come and let me welcome you to paradise, paradise'.
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South Sea Song
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| The Charlie Daniels Band |
