John Denver

Calypso

To sail on a dream on a crystal-clear ocean,
to ride on the crest of a wild raging storm.
To work in the service of life and the living
in search of the answers to questions unknown.
To be part of the movement, and part of the growing,
part of beginning to understand.

Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to,
the things that you've shown us, the stories you tell.
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit,
the men who have served you so long and so well.

Like the dolphin who guides you
you bring us beside you the light of the darkness and show us the way.
For though we are strangers in your silent world,
to live on the land we must learn from the sea:

To be true as the tide, free as a windwell,
joyful and loving in letting it be.

Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to,
the things that you've shown us, the stories you tell.
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit,
the men who have served you so long and so well.

Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to,
the things that you've shown us, the stories you tell.
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit,
the men who have served you so long and so well.