Bus Ride Ballad To Suva
Bus Ride Ballad To Suva

Bus Ride Ballad To Suva easy guitar chords by Allen Ginsberg

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    • Verse 1
    Ballad 
    written 
    in shaky 
    pen hand 
    in school 

    copy book on 
    a bus bumping 
    around 

    the 
    road on 
    the shores 
    of 

    Fiji going 
    to the town 
    of 

    Suva with 

    Lawrence 

    Ferlinghetti and 
    his 11 year 
    old son 

    Lorenzo. 

    Bus 
    ride ballad 
    road to 

    Suva 

    March 4th, 
    1972. 




    Oh 
    -ho, 
    the 

    Australian 
    lad 
    dressed in 
    red 

    Oh -ho, 
    the 

    Ferlinghetti, 
    beard on 
    his head 

    Oh -ho, 
    for the 
    roar of the 
    motor uphill 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    for 
    the 
    feathery 
    grass standing 
    still 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    the 

    Palm 

    Islands 
    that rise 
    from 
    blue sea 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    the breezy sky 
    that 
    hangs over 
    me 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    the dirt 
    road that 
    gives us 
    away 

    Away 
    to 

    Fiji, 

    Port 

    Suva, 
    we 
    go there 
    today 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    the black lady 
    so 
    big and 
    so fat 

    From 
    eat
    ing the 
    taro root, 

    pink 
    hair, 
    no hat 

    Oh -ho, 
    the clean 

    Indian 
    wives in 
    white cloth 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    the 
    green frog 
    that 

    ate 
    the black moth 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    misty 
    hills all 

    sun shining 
    we've 
    seen 

    Oh 
    -ho, 

    palm -roof 
    huts with doorsteps 
    grass 
    -green 

    Oh 
    -ho, the 
    black cow, 

    head bent 
    on the field 

    Here 
    by the 
    old banyan, 

    bus stop 
    squeaky -wheeled 

    The 

    Fiji boy 
    opens 
    the beer with 
    his teeth 

    The 
    bottle sits 
    down on 
    the floor by 
    his feet 

    A 
    cowrie -shelled 
    purse and 

    Pall 

    Mall 
    cigarette 

    Low 
    tide 
    by the 
    ocean road, 

    sand 
    is still 
    wet 

    Green 
    craggy 

    Mabenga 
    sits on 
    the low 
    sea 

    Her men 
    walk through fire 

    for 
    you and 
    for me 

    Oh 
    ho, that 
    last night 

    the round kava 
    bowl 

    Numbed my 
    mouth, 

    tasting 
    the island's 
    strange 
    soul 

    Oh 
    -ho, for 
    hibiscus, 
    mail 
    pouch 
    on the nail 

    Oh 
    -ho, for 
    the palm frond 

    that waves 
    at 
    the 

    well 

    Oh -ho, 
    tin -roofed 
    deserts 

    and drainpipes 

    in rows 

    Pacific 

    Development 

    Corp. 
    only knows 

    Oh -ho, 
    blessed freedom 
    on 

    Fiji's 

    Greenland 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    virgin hills, 
    coconuts 
    in your hand 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    bless 
    the pawpaw 

    and orchid 
    that grows 

    Oh 
    -ho, 
    bless the 

    Englishman's 
    leftover rose 

    But cursed 
    be the merchants and 

    company 
    cranks 

    Cap
    italists 
    hiding 
    behind 

    Hong 

    Kong's 
    banks 

    Cursed 
    be 

    Pan 

    Am 
    and the hotel 
    airways 

    Their 
    business is 
    ruined for 

    Eden's always 

    The 
    wind 
    that flaps 
    the banana leaf, 
    ho! 

    Cocks 
    that peck in 
    the garden and crow, 

    ho! 

    For the switchbacks 
    on 
    red dirt hillsides 

    Cows 
    walk 
    by the 
    jungle and 

    grazing abide 

    We roll 
    over mountains, 

    rocks 
    clank in 
    the dust 

    Stop 
    for bananas 
    and pee 
    as we 
    must 

    Oh, 
    ho, 
    the blue 
    ocean, 

    what green 
    peak we 
    pass, 

    Down there 
    the 

    White 

    Houses 
    of 

    Suva 
    at 
    last! 

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