Manu Taï

Lyrics – Bislama

(Folk song from Vanuatu)

Manu Taï
I fulap long coprah
Sea by sea
Long Malapoa
Captain i se
Wera yumi ko
Lettem nomo
Olwe long Fila aelan
(source)

The Manu Taï
Is full of copra,
Sea by sea,
At Malapoa,
The captain says,
“Where are we going?”
Let’s just go
All the way to Fila Island.

*The Manu Taï is a ship carrying copra (dried kernel of the coconut).
(source)