Venezuela (Sailing from Caracas up to Trinidad)

WV2132/2025

Watercolours van Gogh on Steinbach paper.

 

"Fresh bait sails a net and a wooden spear

The Amazon basin ain't too far but it ain't too near

I'll never sink my tackle in that water

I'm not a jungle son, I got rum soaked

Hooked a line and I caught her

 

Oh Venezuela, salted sea is all I've ever had

Sailing from Caracas up to Trinidad

Oh, Venezuela been on a shrimp boat for too long

Trolling shark through waters from the surf to sun

 

Sunset sees man rest on a charted isle

Mama cooks fresh fish on a driftwood fire

Oh, he's early rise when the sky lights Barcelona

I'm not a jungle son, I got rum soaked

Hooked a line and I caught her

 

Off the coast the schooner boasts

They found a pirate wreck

While the barracuda fights

For breath upon the open deck

Sharing stories of Captain Morgan

And the Mary Celeste..."

 

VENEZUELA - Music & lyrics Bernie Taupin, 1980.

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