As I sit here attending my news stand The water lapping 'round my little island My girls are running around the world See the pictures above my cash register They see the world and they send it me home They take pictures with their cameras They see the world and they send it me home I stick the pictures above my cash register They see the world and they send it me home See my girls on the Headerwick buses They like the energy of London town A cooking pot with so many flavours They taste the world and they send it me home Taking pictures of the Eiffel tower Taking pictures of the Grand canal I stick the pictures above my cash register They see the world and they send it me home See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) And they dream of returning to this little island The most beautiful island in this world Riding camels in the Sahara They see the pyramids across the Nile On a boat in the Amazonia They see these things and they send it me home The tall buildings of the America The skyscrapers as they are known They take pictures with their cameras They see the world and they send it me home See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) And they dream of returning to this little island The most beautiful island in this world Taking pictures in the planetariums They take their pictures at the Grand Bazars And with the horses of Buenos Aires And the antelopes of Africa And at the grave of the great Bob Marley The slanty pillars of Park Guelle And with statues of the Piazzolla They see the world and they send it me home See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) See my girls (see my girls) So many tears shed into this ocean So many innocent lost souls So many cries of desperation Washed up on these shores Among the crosses in the hills of Flanders And at the gates of Birkenau The killing fields of Cambodia They see the world and they send it back home See the beauty of the great Damascus And of the babies of South Yemen The security barriers of Jerusalem They see the world and they send it back home And with the turtles of Kefalonia And with the dolphins of Donegal The great oak trees in the hills of Paulhac They see the world and they send it me home See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls See my girls