Culture Cross

Girl in the middle, neither black nor white
mixed breed, half-caste
never wrong, never right
can cut it in society, can cut it on the street
she’s just like sonny rollins’ saxophone
long, hard and sweet

[Chorus]
culture cross, never at a loss
adaptable, versatile, flexible and volatile
culture cross
culture cross,
never at a loss
just coloured

boy in the middle, sent him off to war
he was mixed breed, half-caste
no perfection, no flaw
met the girl in the middle
oh, he blew her right away
they’ll think of each other with love and lust
forever and a day

[chorus]

[bridge]
oh, where would they be
oh, lo, where would she be
without he
without he

[chorus]

About This Song...

This song was written by request of Pati Umaga (Pacific Nation Records) who offered to record a single for me and wanted something with an Island theme.

I wrote about being half-caste, and the song celebrates the diversity of emotion, talent and life for people of two or more cultures - i love what i am and am proud of my white mother (English/Danish pioneers of the Rai Valley, Nelson, Aotearoa) and my coloured father (Tongan/Fijian/Samoan/European).

I am a first generation Australian and am grateful and glad to be allowed to live in the great and mysterious Land of the Dreaming (hello to my friends in Broome!!), I love my mother's country of Aotearoa and I live there in great happiness, with much love and peace, and am Auckland-based, but the country of my heart is my father's, Fiji - o Viti, noqu vanua dina !!

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