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Bus Ride Ballad To Suva chords by 
Allen Ginsberg 
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Verse 1
D
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.
G
Bus ride ballad road to
Suva
D
March 4th, 1972.
G
D
G
D
A
D
Oh -ho, the
Australian lad dressed in red
G
Oh -ho, the
Ferlinghetti, beard on his head
D
Oh -ho, for the roar of the motor uphill
A
Oh -ho, for the feathery grass standing still
D
Oh -ho, the
Palm
Islands that rise from blue sea
G
Oh -ho, the breezy sky that hangs over me
D
Oh -ho, the dirt road that gives us away
Away to
Fiji,
A
Port
Suva, we go there today
D
Oh -ho, the black lady so big and so fat
G
From eating the taro root,
pink hair, no hat
D
Oh -ho, the clean
Indian wives in white cloth
A
D
Oh -ho, the green frog that
A
ate the black moth
D
Oh -ho, misty hills all
sun shining we've seen
Oh -ho,
G
palm -roof huts with doorsteps grass -green
D
Oh -ho, the black cow,
head bent on the field
A
Here by the old banyan,
bus stop squeaky -wheeled
The
D
Fiji boy opens the beer with his teeth
G
The bottle sits down on the floor by his feet
D
A cowrie -shelled purse and
Pall
Mall cigarette
A
Low tide by the ocean road,
sand is still wet
D
Green craggy
Mabenga sits on the low sea
G
Her men walk through fire
for you and for me
D
Oh ho, that last night
the round kava bowl
A
Numbed my mouth,
tasting the island's strange soul
D
Oh -ho, for hibiscus, mail pouch on the nail
G
Oh -ho, for the palm frond
that waves at the
well
D
Oh -ho, tin -roofed deserts
and drainpipes
in rows
Pacific
Development
A
Corp. only knows
D
Oh -ho, blessed freedom on
Fiji's
Greenland
G
Oh -ho, virgin hills, coconuts in your hand
D
Oh -ho, bless the pawpaw
and orchid that grows
A
Oh -ho, bless the
D
A
Englishman's leftover rose
D
But cursed be the merchants and
company cranks
G
Capitalists hiding behind
Hong
Kong's banks
D
Cursed be
Pan
Am and the hotel airways
A
Their business is ruined for
Eden's always
D
The wind that flaps the banana leaf, ho!
G
Cocks that peck in the garden and crow,
ho!
D
For the switchbacks on red dirt hillsides
A
Cows walk by the jungle and
grazing abide
D
We roll over mountains,
rocks clank in the dust
G
Stop for bananas and pee as we must
D
Oh, ho, the blue ocean,
what green peak we pass,
Down there the
White
D
Houses of
Suva at last!
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