One Particular Harbour
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By: Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Holcomb
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1983
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For Marius Skatelborough
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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I know I don't get there often enough
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But God knows I surely try
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It's a magic kind of medicine
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That no doctor could prescribe
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I used to rule my world from a pay phone
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Ships out on the sea
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But now times are rough
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And I got too much stuff
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Can't explain likes of me
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Chorus:
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But there's this one particular harbour
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So far but yet so near
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Where I see the days as they fade away
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And finally disappear
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But now I think about the good times
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Down in the Caribbean sunshine
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In my younger days I was so bad
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Laughin' about all the fun we had
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I seen enough to feel the world spin
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Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins
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Listen to the drummers and the night sounds
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Listen to the singers make the world go 'round
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(pan solo)
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Lakes below the mountain
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Flow into the sea
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Like oils applied to canvas
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They permeate through me
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And there's that one particular harbour
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Sheltered from the wind
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Where the children play on the shore each day
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And all are safe within
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Most mysterious calling harbour
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So far but yet so near
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I can see the day when my hair's full gray
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And I finally disappear
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ia ora te natura (Ua pau te maitai no te fenua)
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ia ora te natura (Ua pau te maitai no te fenua)
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E mea arofa teie ao nei, hey now, hey now, hey now
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Ia ora te natura
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E mea arofa teie ao nei
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Ua pau te maitai no te fenua [Bounty of the land is exhausted]
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Te zai noa ra te ora o te mitie [But there's still abundance in the sea]
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Ua pau te maitai no te fenua
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Te zai noa ra te ora o te mitie
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- Notes:
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Background Vocals: Timothy B. Schmit and The Chorale Epherona
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Additional Percussion and Congas: Errol "Crusher" Bennett
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Pahue and Toere Drums: Jimmy Buffett, Jim Shea, and Sam Clayton (The
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Boom Boom Boys)
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Language is Tahitian
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One Particular Harbour(In Album One Particular Harbour)
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| Jimmy Buffett |
