South Sea Song lyrics - The Charlie Daniels Band

Not too long ago I decided I would go

Driftin' with the tide down where the trade winds blow

I went sailin' in on a southwest wind from some place I don't recall.

Glad to be on solid ground, just as the sun was goin' down

I stepped out to take a look around.

I had a Mai Tai in my hand and I was lookin' at the moon

Listening to a band play some south sea island tunes

There was a warm breeze blowin' and the rum was flowin', you could almost touch the stars.

All at once it came to me nowhere in my memory

That I had ever felt so fine and free.

Then she came from out of nowhere

A brown-skinned girl with flowers in her hair

She looked at me awhile

And then she smiled a special smile

And it went right through me when she swayed up to me

There was something she wanted to say

She said: ‘I can make your dreams come true’

‘Come and let me welcome you to paradise’.

She took me by the hand, I didn't even know her name

She led me through the sand down this little moonlit lane

And on out back was a small grass shack and as we got to the door

With the palm trees thrashin' and the trade winds crashin', the waves down on the shore

She turned around and she pulled me down and she said it just once more.

She said: ‘I can make your dreams come true’

‘Come and let me welcome you to paradise, paradise’.