PERILOUS PARADISE

[Music] the island of t toin Palm fringed peaceful a Carefree people quaint Nomads of the sea and Shore playing working under kind Tropic Skies Untouched by The Sweep of civilization save for a lone Mission School no clang and clatter of grinding City traffic only graceful Palm shaded streets gentle winds and leisurely Shoppers exchanging friendly greetings as a New Day brings its simple tasks no feverish haste on this happy Island the pavement is never red hot under their feet age finds the Solace of genial companionship as memories are revived and exchanged but it is not a land of all idleness and women and children have their chores to [Music] do looks like he is filling a pipe not exactly it is a mild narcotic of another sort the beetle nut which he chws with [Music] relish you comb my head and I'll comb yours much less expensive than permanent waves throughout the ages man has felt a Reliance upon a higher power so from the Quran the children are taught the lessons of the Prophet Allah is good Allah is just thus life moves on their motto is not Manana but nevertheless time to them is eternal why were your fret these look like skulls for a second but you are wrong just a crop of coconuts on an aisare nature provides abundantly for her children and where there is plenty for [Music] all the art of boat making and sailing comes naturally to an island people Fleet vs and sabits lumbering limpas and fraw are ever ready for cargo or Transit for at times these Nomadic moros Desert their Villages and for months on end sail the Tropic Waters truly gypsies of the [Music] sea the boys don't seem to need special chaperon but they have a gallery just the [Music] same looks like a radio tower but what would these simple folks know of radio it is a giant fish net which to them is far more useful dependent as they are upon the sea for so much of their food [Music] supply boys learn early the rudiments of navigation someday they too will handle the big ventas and push their prows into the blue white Breakers towards sinking their Nets and returning treasure Laden to the throng crowded [Music] [Music] Beach a goodly island is Tick toin through arching foliage sunlight flashes from cascading waterfalls that leap and swirl throwing their spray and Misty showers over happy ring moral maidens nature in this tranquil Island gives no greater Boon than this it is playtime in tickt as indeed it is all year round No frost to blight no snow to freeze just long sunfill hours without the call of clocks and Factory whistles time to Splash and dive in the Cool Waters and show baz by the hour with no water bills to pay even the monkeys join in the spirit of G is it Leap Frog anyway she's not going to leave her baby out of it where Mama goes baby goes too oh all that was a ducking well the sun will dry her [Music] off here is another kind of play yes it's play these people are not Head Hunters but I would rather play with something else than one of those native swords yet so it has been in every form of communal life on the Village Green the user time at county fairs in the arena town park or at the marketplace the piper has piped the dancers danced and merry men made merry quack quack step Sid step Advance Retreat as on the sidelines the orchestra beats the rhythm of the [Music] pl [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] mying [Music] [Music] fore [Applause] [Music] one [Music] [Applause] a [Applause] [Music] hey hey hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] the but it can't be play all the time and although Pearl diving might look like play it is really hard skillful work the natives stay underwater from 3 to 4 minutes crawling along the bottom filling baskets with shells and then returning to the [Music] surface [Music] it's not fun weaving your way through Coral Gardens never knowing when you may meet some gliding monster like this a manate dong or resembling some prehistoric dinosaur resurrected from Antiquity malignant evil an apparition from the unknown but the divers are more agile than their clumsy visitor easily elude his gigantic bulk and make their way to the surface where The Boatman sit with poised Spears to challenge the ugly monster should he too come to the [Music] surface [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] on [Music] [Applause] [Music] go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] oh [Music] on [Music] but it is only an incident in the daily ritual of the Pearl dier tomorrow for a mere pittance he will go down again to search for the opaque little stone that someday at fabulous prices will Adorn Fair ladies of the western world take me there to zambo anger in the islands far away where the rustling of the palm trees and the moral maidens say come you here to zambo anger and the shores of zambo bay here is life also Adventure there are Pearl beds neath the sea and at times the moral Raiders May on the war path be but it's not mundane existence and it's strongly calling me take me there to zambo anger it is there I want to be when the Shadows of the sun set on the bter seem to me to be saying off for zambo and the Plaid suu sea