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My Island

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My Island

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You live on my island

And you own all my rights

I want you to know

Give me what is mine

You live on my island

And you own all my rights

I want you to know

Give me what is mine

Is this another Christopher Columbus

Is this another old pirate game

Is this another Christopher Columbus

Is this another old pirate game

If this is a war, a musical war

I want you to know, I decided to fight

Come in my soldiers

Come and let us fight

Come and let us fight

Fight for our right

Come in my soldiers

Come and let us fight

Come and let us fight

Fight for our right

I and I yading in the footstep, the footstep of the

Kings Highway

I and I yading in the footstep, the footstep of the

Kings Highway

I want you to know

Give me what is mine

You live on my island

And you own all my rights

I want you to know

Give me what is mine

So you think you come again to trick us

So you think you come again to fool us

So you think you come again to trick us

So you think you come again to fool us

Long, long, long, long, long time ago

My old great grandfather father, usually work in this

plantation

Long, long, long, long, long time ago

My old great grandfather father, usually work in this

plantation

Water carrier / Food server

So you think you come again to trick us

So you think you come again to fool us

So you think you come again to trick us

So you think you come again to fool us

You live on my island

And you own all my rights

I want you to know

Give me what is mine

If this is a war, a musical war

I want you to know, I decided to fight

Come in my soldiers

Come and let us fight

Come and let us fight

Fight for our right

I and I yading in the footstep, the footstep of the

Kings Highway

I and I yading in the footstep, the footstep of the

Kings Highway

You live on my island

And you own all my rights

I want you to know

Give me what is mine

You live on my island

And you own all my rights

I want you to know

Give me what is mine

Remember you live on my island (Repeat)

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