On green luscious land
Pearl blue sea
Fishes and birds and insects and colours and life and love and coconuts
I wish that I was born on Tahiti
How easy life could be
Without the snow
The hunger the cold the clothes
The clothes the clothes
Cos I live on the North Pole in an igloo
And it isn't very nice
The sea is blue, they tell me, beneath the ice,
And the girls are really very pretty,
They tell me
Beneath their furs.
I wish that I had died on Tahiti
With the moon, sixpence and leprosy
Or a yacht, tuberculosis, a black arrow and a cigarette