Kiwi Swing Serenade

Down where the tide meets the morning air

I found a heart that was waiting there

You smile like Sunday

over the harbour

Slow and easy, clear and kind

From rolling hills to the salt-blue water

You turn the weather

in my mind I hear your laughter

in every doorway

Warm as sunlight on the bay

My little corner of the wide world opens

Every time you look my way Oh,

loving New Zealand, you stay in my soul In the green and

the blue, you make broken things whole From the wind on the

coast to the stars overhead

Loving New Zealand, you're where my heart is led There in the

vineyards, there by the fences

There in the rain on an old tin roof

You give a calm to all my questions

You make the simple feel like truth

A road bends south and the daylight lingers

White clouds drift and softly gleam

I hold your name like a favorite standard Sweet and tender as

a dream If I wander far,

I still return To the hills that taught my heart to burn

Every quiet mile, every open sky

Brings your song back by and by Oh,

loving New Zealand, you stay in my soul

In the green and the blue,

you make broken things whole From the wind on the coast

to the stars overhead

Loving New Zealand, you're where my heart is led Loving New Zealand

My heart comes home