                  `$Summertime On The Island

`0I`2t's summertime on the Island, what's a kid to do?
`0F`2lowers, cherries, mango, everything ripe for the picking.
`0I`2t's summertime on the island man and all he has to do is nothing.

`0S`2mell that fresh air, hear those bee's and humming birds speak.
`0W`2hat a day, not a raindrop in sight on chances peak.
`0C`2ricket, marbles, hunt that agouti and maybe later the beach.
`3What's a kid to do?
`0N`2othing but blue skies, as far as the eyes can reach.

`0H`2ere comes the fellas, it's time to get going.
`0S`2ummertime on island man and all he has to do is nothing.
`#God Almighty!
`0T`2his is as close to `%heaven `2as i'll ever be.


`0I`2t's summertime on the Island what's a kid to do?
`0F`2lowers, cherries, mango, everything is burning.
`0I`2t's summertime on the island man and all he has to do is nothing.

`0S`2mell that acrid air, listen, maybe you can hear the earth speak.
`0A`2sh, smoke, damn you can't even see chances peak.

`0N`2o Cricket, No marbles, No hunting agouti, not even the beach.
`3What's a kid to do?
`0L`2ook, it's just ash and lava as far as the eyes can reach.

`0B`2oom another explosion, another round of evacuating.
`0S`2ummertime on the island man and all he has to do is nothing.
`#God Almighty!
`0T`2his is as close to `ehell `2as i'll ever be.

                `%Copyright (c) 1997 ahkenaton

`6"...oh island in the sun, willed to me by my fathers hand,
`6All my days i will sing in praise of your forest, waters and shining sand.." 
                       
