Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 IA ORA TE NA-TURA [English translation: below]

 E MEA A-ROFA TEIE AO NEI

 IA ORA TE NA-TURA

 E MEA A-ROFA TEIE AO NEI

 I know I don't get there often enough

 But God knows I surely try

 It's a magic kind of medicine

 That no doctor could prescribe

 I used to rule my world from a pay phone

 And ships out on the sea

 But now times are rough

 And I got too much stuff

 Can't explain the likes of me

Chorus

  But there's this one particular harbor

  So far but yet so near

  Where I see the days as they fade away

  And finally disappear

  But now I think about the good times

  Down in the Caribbean sunshine

  In my younger days I was so bad

  Laughin' about all the fun we had

  I've seen enough to feel the world spin

  Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins

  Listen to the drummers and the night sounds

  Listen to the singers make the world go round

(SOLO [repeats chorus chords])

IA ORA TE NATURA

E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI

IA ORA TE NATURA

E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI

Lakes below the mountains

Flow into the sea

Like oils applied to canvas

They permeate through me

And there's that one particular harbor

Sheltered from the wind

Where the children play on the shore each day

And all are safe within

A most mysterious calling harbor

So far but yet so near

Where I see the day when my hair's full gray

And I finally disappear

IA ORA TE NATURA [translation:]

E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI NATURE LIVES (LIFE TO NATURE)

IA ORA TE NATURA HAVE PITY FOR THE EARTH

E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI (LOVE THE EARTH)

UA PAU TE MAITAI NO TE FENUA BOUNTY OF THE LAND IS EXHAUSTED

TE ZAI NOA RA TE ORA O TE MITIE BUT THERE'S STILL ABUNDANCE

IN THE SEA