Key: G major
Verse 1
people called
Moken who live on the
Sorin
Islands in the
Andaman
Sea.
Six months of the year they
live simply on their handmade boats.
The rest of the year they live on
the beach.
They learn to swim before they learn to walk and
they are so good at diving and catching
sea creatures that they can see underwater twice as
well as the rest of us in the so -called civilized
world.
They take care of turtle nests,
and they speak their own
Austronesian
D
Moken language,
G
a language unusual in that it has no words for want,
D
G
or take, or goodbye, or hello, or
even worry.
D
G
They don't know how old they are because
they have no concept of time, have
no word for when. I
want to go there.
Very, very badly, I want to go.
Way out on the
Sorin
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A
Am
Islands, in the middle of the
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Sea, there lives a happy people
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Am
A
With a small vocabulary.
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G
E
If you have no word for worry,
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D
there must be no worry there.
G
E
Imagine never having a birthday
D
You don't care.
G
E
If you have no word for take or want,
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C
you must have everything you need.
G
E
If you have no yen for material gain,
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C
No hello.
E
Am
No how are ya.
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G
No need to lie.
C
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No telling time, no asking when
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Never hearing, are we there yet?
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D
Over and over again
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G
No road rage, no cell phones
E
Am
With their annoying downloadable
D
G
hippity hoppity ringtones
C
G
No car alarms, no baseball scores
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Am
D
G
No second hand smoke, no slamming doors
C
G
No noisy neighbors,
C
G
you can hear through the walls.
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Am
No tailgaters, telemarketer calls.
B
Em
No panhandlers, no spam.
Bm
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Bm
Eskimos have 28 different
D
E
words for snow?
Well the
Am
E
Moken don't have a single word for
D
Eskimo.
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E
Let's pack our bags, what's there is enough for
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D
us on an island without a single thosaurus
Or greenhouse gases?
B
Em
Or toxic spills?
How do we get there?
Am
MasterCard?
Well, how the hell are you supposed
Am
D
G
Oh, take one plane to another plane, to a train,
E
Am
A
to a boat, from a boat to a dock, from
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B
a dock to a float, from a float to a beach,
A
Am
D
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E
Oh, it sounds lovely, but way out on the soaring islands,
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D
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as peaceful as can be, there lies
D
E
It's a perfect paradise
Em
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Ebdim
A paradise I'll never see
D
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Em
A
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