See My Girls

As I sit here attending my news stand

The water lapping ‘round my little island

My girls are running around the world

See the pictures above my cash register

They see the world and they send it me home

They take pictures with their cameras

They see the world and they send it back home

I stick the pictures above my cash register

They see the world and they send it me home

See my girls on the Headerwick buses

They like the energy of London town

A cooking pot with so many flavours

They taste the world and they send it me home

Taking picture at the Eiffel tower

Taking pictures on the Grand canal

I stick the pictures above my cash register

They see the world and they send it me home

See my girls, see my girls

And they dream of returning to this little island

The most beautiful island in this world

Riding camels in the Sahara

They see the pyramids across the Nile

On a boat in the Amazonia

They see these things and they send it me home

The tall buildings of the Americas

Skyscrapers as they are known

They take pictures with their cameras

They see the world and they send it me home

See my girls, see my girls

And they dream of returning to this little island

The most beautiful island in this world

Taking pictures in the planetariums

They take their pictures in the Grand Bazars

With the horses of Buenos Aries

And the antelopes of Africa

At the grave of the great Bob Marley

The slanty pillars of Park Guelle

With statues of Piazola

They see the world and they send it me home

See my girls, see my girls

So many tears shed into this ocean

So many innocent lost souls

So many cries of desperation

Washed up on these shores

Among the crosses in the hills of Flanders

At the gates of Birkenau

The killing fields of Cambodia

They see the world and they send it back me home

See the beauty of the great Damascus

And of the babies of South Yemen

The security barriers of Jerusalem

They see the world and they send it to me

With the turtles of kefalonia

With the dolphins of Donegal

The great oak tree in the hills of Paulhac

They see the world and they send it me home