Our Ocean - song for the Pacific

If you don’t know who Te Vaka is then you are probably not from this part of the world - so you will just have to trust me when I say that they rock. They wrote Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Choice, for the Rainbow Warrior tour of the Pacific Islands.

The song is a passionate call from the people of the Pacific to their leaders, and to the world's fishing industry, to ensure that the world's last healthy tuna fish survives large-scale commercial fishing and pirate fishing.

It is also an excellent song ­ so add it to your mp3 collections, get your local radio station to play it, share it with your friends (non-commercially), use it to help spread the word about saving one of the world’s last healthy fisheries.

OUR OCEAN (written by Opetaia Foa'i for Greenpeace)

Verse
I give you my voice
together we make a stand
We're making the right choice
for our future
and for our children too
Hear the cries from the ocean
Cries of caution from our ancestors
We can't be defeated
United we can win

chorus
{in English, Fijian, Kiribati and One Tok}

This is my ocean
This is my future
My choice
(this ocean is my home)
This is our ocean
This is our future
Our Choice
(the Pacific is our home)

Bridge
What do we say to our ancestors
When all the fish are gone
If we fail to protect our home
And all our future children to come
Their hope lies in us

Chorus replies

We must protect it
They must respect it
Our Ocean