I’m quite happy with this effort. It reflects the great times we’ve had in the Cook Islands. It needs some decent music to go with it, perhaps with a ukulele solo 😉)

Here’s my attempt with the help of AI, whaddathink?

The beat of Rarotonga

a fire and clear star sky.

I whispered Kia Orana to the sea

And dreamt a lullaby

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The sun and Rarotonga

conspired to make me new

But waves and reef

and sand and sun

Were nothing without you

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I don’t feel alive here in the city

I really don’t know why

I’m just a nameless number

With a short term alibi

But when I’m in Rarotonga

I am the land, the sea, the sky

I wanted to stay there forever

Although I knew I had to fly

But when I’m in Rarotonga

I am the land, the sea, the sky

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When I found a lucky slice of life

In the Pacific southern sun

My eyes had seen half a hundred years

But my heart was twenty one

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A long flight to Rarotonga

A nervous late depart

But this time I’m fine

Cos I’m with you

My Island girl sweetheart.

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I don’t feel alive here in the city

I really don’t know why

I’m just a nameless number

With a short term alibi

But when I’m in Rarotonga

I am the land, the sea, the sky

I want to stay here forever

Although I know we have to fly

But when I’m in Rarotonga

I am the land, the sea, the sky

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(Bridge)

What if all those stars went out

In the night sky when we kissed

Could we turn those stars back on

In a moment just like this?

When we leave here tomorrow

We will feel a leaving pain

The sun will light

our outward flight

Stars will bring us back again

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I don’t feel alive here in the city

I really don’t know why

I’m just a nameless number

With a short term alibi

But when I’m in Rarotonga

I am the land, the sea, the sky

I want to stay here forever

Although I know we have to fly

But when I’m in Rarotonga

I am the land, the sea, the sky

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Copyright: Rod de Lisle