See My Girls

As I sit here attending my newsstand 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 me 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 pictures of the Eiffel Tower Taking pictures of 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) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) 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 to the Amazonia They see these things and they send it me home The tall buildings of the America 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) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) 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 at the Grand Bazaars And with the horses at the Buenos Aires And the antelopes in Africa And at the grave of the great Bob Marley The slanting pillars of Park Güell And at the statues of the Piazzolla They see the world and they send it me home See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) So many tears shed in this ocean So many innocent lost souls So many cries of desperation Washed up on these shores Among the crosses of the hills of Flanders And at the gates of Birkenau The killing fields of the Cambodia They see the world and they send it back home They see the beauty of the great Damascus And of the babies of the South Yemen Security barriers of the Jerusalem They see the world and they send it back home And with the turtles of Kefalonia And with the dolphins of Donegal The great oak trees in the fields of Paulhac They see the world and they send it me home See my girls (see my girls) See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls