Island In The Sun

Island In The Sun - Count Owen

This is my island in the sun

Where my people have

Toiled since time begun

I may sail on many a sea

Her shores will always

Be home to me

Oh island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest waters your

Shining sand

As morning breaks

The heaven on high

I lift my heavy load to the sky

Sun comes down with a burning glow

And mingles my sweat

In the earth below

Oh island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest waters

Your shining sand

I see woman on bended knee

Cutting cane for her family

I see man at the water side

Casting nets at the surging tide

Oh island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest waters

Your shining sand

I praise the day will never come

When I can't awake to

The sound of drum

Never let me miss carnival

With calypso songs philosophical

Oh island in the sun

Willed to me by my father's hand

All my days I will sing in praise

Of your forest waters

Your shining sand