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Mauna Kea

from Up to Our Ears by Thinkspeak

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I wrote Mauna Kea on a trip to Hawaii in 1992 visiting mis amigo in Hilo. I inserted the reference, since it was on my mind, to losing a progressive senator while I was gone. Clinton had just been elected and this corporate guy was too "liberal" for the indoctrinated properly broken people of Georgia. My trip was to Hilo but switched planes in Honolulu and flew past these other mountain tops sticking out of the ocean so fictionalized abit.

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Out of Oahu past Molokai two weeks in Maui
pas a porte comin up short Hilo Bay

Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today

Hapuna Beach breakers that chill blue waters not still
dusk feeding time sharks in a line Kailuna Bay

Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today - yah

refrain:
they're indoctrinated properly broken back in Georgia
the people have spoken turned my senator out

2.
Punaluu strange cold water layer turtles at swim
lava flow trail everywhere even Ka Lae

Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today

to end road cliffs receding blue banyan trees
over the abyss go stumbling the years

Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today - yah

3.
night flight Waikiki lights fading away
into the black hours four and a half hours 'Frisco Bay

Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today

so goes the story not to worry thin skin airbird
so goes the story Lapahoehoe back to Georgia

Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today
Mauna Kea is covered with clouds today - yah
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from Up to Our Ears, released January 21, 2013

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Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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