Green New Zealand

I've seen great sights of beauty in my travels The gold and grey landscapes, the brown and green But south Pacific Islands of New Zealand Are beautiful as anywhere I've seen. I've seen the hills of Sherbrooke east of Melbourne Where tall mountain ash reach upwards towards the sky And cool rainforests of northern New South Wales and Queensland Are memories I can recall and enjoy. I've seen the high hills of Britain and Ireland Of such green beauty famous bards have wrote But I would write a song for green New Zealand Had I been blessed with gift of rhyming poet. I've seen the wild brown outback of Australia It's rugged beauty man could never tame A different sort of beauty to New Zealand And no two sorts of beauty seem the same. I've seen the Catskill mountains in their splendour When flowers were blooming in the month of May And birds sang in the leafy mountain woodlands But that was years ago and far away. The lush green hills and valleys of New Zealand As beautiful as I have ever seen And the Homeland of the kakapo and kiwi Can compare with to anywhere I've been.