My Island Home
Christine Anu


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                                                      1.Six  years I've

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   been in the desert     And every night    I dream of the sea    They say

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   home______ is where you find it    But will this place      ever satisfy
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   me       2.For I     And my island home      my island home    my island

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   home     is waiting for me        3.In the evening the dry wind blows

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     From the hills     and across the plains       I close my eyes and I'm

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   standing     in a boat      on the sea a-gain       And I'm holding that

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   long turtle spear      and I feel I'm close now    to where it must be
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    and my island home    is waiting for me                 me           |

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       My island home        my island home        my island home

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    is waiting for me      my island home      my island home     my island

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   home       my island home       my island   home       my island home

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       my island home        my island home        my island   home

2.For I come from the salt water people
    We always lived by the sea
    Now I'm out here west of Alice Springs
    With a wife and a family

4.Inst

5.As for 2

6.As for 3