Jimmy Buffett One Particular Harbour(in Album One Particular Harbour) Lyrics

One Particular Harbour(in Album One Particular Harbour) Lyrics

One Particular Harbour 

By: Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Holcomb 

1983 

For Marius Skatelborough 

Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 

Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa 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 

Ships out on the sea 

But now times are rough 

And I got too much stuff 

Can't explain likes of me 



Chorus: 

But there's this one particular harbour 

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 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 



(pan solo) 



Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 

Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 



Lakes below the mountain 

Flow into the sea 

Like oils applied to canvas 

They permeate through me 



And there's that one particular harbour 

Sheltered from the wind 

Where the children play on the shore each day 

And all are safe within 



Most mysterious calling harbour 

So far but yet so near 

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

And I finally disappear 



Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 

Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 



Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 

Ia ora te natura (Ua pau te maitai no te fenua) 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 



Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 

Ia ora te natura (Ua pau te maitai no te fenua) 

E mea arofa teie ao nei, hey now, hey now, hey now 



Ia ora te natura 

E mea arofa teie ao nei 



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] 

Ua pau te maitai no te fenua 

Te zai noa ra te ora o te mitie 



- Notes: 

Background Vocals: Timothy B. Schmit and The Chorale Epherona 

Additional Percussion and Congas: Errol "Crusher" Bennett 

Pahue and Toere Drums: Jimmy Buffett, Jim Shea, and Sam Clayton (The 

Boom Boom Boys) 

Language is Tahitian