22/11/2007

  • My Sung Ode to the Outer Banks

    (Tune:  the old Latvian SSR anthem, by A. Lepina)

     

    1.

    From Blackbeard’s haunt to Hatteras Light

    Through Pea’s Refuge to Wrights’ Hill of First Flight

    The Outer Banks rose from th’azure main

    And gave Carolina her seaborne crown

     

    Curfa:

    God graced these wond’rous Banks with Mercy and Beauty,

    far more than is ever deserved from Him!

     

    2.

    Through stormy gale and fierce hurricane

    The islands stand though tempest has raged

    God sheltered her brave citizens through trial

    Even when Isabel made a new inlet.

     

    (Curfa)

     

    3.

    (3rd verse in process)

     

    (Curfa 2X)

     

    Tune link:  http://folk.ntnu.no/makarov/temporary_url_20070929kldcg/anthem-ssr-latvian-instr-1968.mp3