Captain Bligh sailed by in 1789

Between Viti and Vanua Levu

Too blinded by his rage to see the beauty of those golden shores

Blinded by his rage to find a hangman’s noose in Dutch Timor

The Resolution sailed in 1791

From Tahiti on a westward wind

In search of Bounty mutineers the schooner master and his crew

Dropped anchor for a while at the enchanted isle of Matuku

And there they stayed and there they played

Woh Pacifica

The gentle heart yearns for thee

Woh Pacifica

Home is the sailor home from sea

The Isabella sailed in 1871

From Malaita and Guadalcanal

Forty-four kanakas came recruited as plantation hands

Their sweat and blood and tears would build the canfields of North Queensland

And to this day their children say

Woh Pacifica

The gentle heart yearns for thee

Woh Pacifica

Home is the sailor home from sea

Tusitala set his hopeless sail too late

Under a wide and starry sky

Robert Louis Stevenson relieved of all his worldly ills

Sailed into that good long night from high up in the Samoan Hills

And from his grave he tells his tales

Woh Pacifica

The gentle heart yearns for thee

Woh Pacifica

Home is the sailor home from sea

Woh Pacifica

The gentle heart yearns for thee

Woh Pacifica

Home is the sailor home from sea