There Once Was A People [Tongan translation]

There once was a people

Of blood that ran strong

Travelling people

Of story and song

They lived their lives

True to the wisdom gone by

They spoke their own tongue

Beneath the clear sky

Now those who were young

Would be hushed off to bed

At night by the fire

The pipes could be heard

It was the sound of the wind

And the trees and the stream

And the moonlit night

Where the banshees scream

And the old folks would tell

Of the magic long gone

Of the elves and the fairies

Their laughter, their song

Of the stones of midsummer

And the power within

Of the travelling people

And the places they've been

Now come around people

In this time-honored place

Down in the hollow

Beneath the moon's face

Don't need much money

For the road isn't poor

So come with me together

We travel some more

Leave the stinky black town

Of the civilized man

Where black tar and concrete

Have strangled the land

Come out in the open field

Running with me

And together we'll find

What it is to be free

• Artist:Rainbow Songs