Calypso

John Denver 


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To sail on a dream, on a crystal blue ocean,
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To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm,
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To work in the service of life and the living,
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In search of the answers to questions unknown --
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To be part of the movement and part of the growing,
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Part of the beginning to understand --


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Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to
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The things that you've shown us, the stories you tell!
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Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit
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The men who have served you so long and so well


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Hi - dee-- ay -- ee -- ooo
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Do-dle-oh-ooo do do do do do do-dle ay-ee
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Do-dle-ay-ee


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Like the dolphins to guide you, you bring us beside you
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To light up the darkness and show us the way
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For though we are strangers in your silent world,
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To live on the land we must learn from the sea
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To be true as the tide and free as a wind swell
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Joyful and loving and letting it be

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