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	All The Ways I Want You
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	Someday I Will
	Far Side Of The World
	Tonight I Just Need My Guitar

Foreign Lyric Translations

One Particular Harbour (Tahitian)

Ia oro te natura
E mea arofa teie ao nei
Ua oau te maitai no te fenua
Te vai noa ra te ora o te mitie

Nature lives (life to nature)
Have pity of the earth (love the earth)
The bounty of the land is exhausted
But there is still abundance in the seas.

Source: The Coconut Telegraph vol 6 no 6

Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfantes (French)

Chanson pour les petits enfants
Chanson pour tout le monde

Song for the (little) children
Song for the world

La Vie Dansante and Last Mango in Paris (French)

La vie dansante

The dancing life

First Look (Portuguese)

Amora primera vista
Voce no, kier insista
Amora primera vista
Reacion quimica (quimica)

Love at first sight
I don't proclaim, I must insist
Love at first sight
Chemical reaction (chemistry)

L'air de la Louisianne (French)

Se promenant dans un bois de la vieille Louisianne
Les ombres s'allongent nos pas silents l'air de la Louisianne
Toi et moi ne parlant pas en sucant de la canne
Pour un instant je suis content en l'air de la Louisianne

Strolling in the woods of Louisiana
As the shadows lengthen, our steps are silent in the Louisiana air
You and I say nothing as we suck sugar cane
For an instant, I'm happy in the Lousiana air

Great Heart (Unknown)

Guk a 'mzimbo sala 'nhilziyo

Body grow old, but heart remain behind

Desperation Samba (Spanish)

Yo quiero a bailar en Mexico
...samba con nos amigos

I want to dance in Mexico
...with our friends

African Friend (French)

Monsieur, ou est le casino?
...Vieux or noveaux

Sir, where is the casino?
...old or new?

Fruitcakes (Latin)

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grevious fault

(This comes from Catholic liturgy and is an admission of sin and an acceptance of the responsibility for that sin.)

Lage Nom Ai (French/island patois)

Lage nom ai-nom ai

The man who gave up his own name