Five hundred years ago nobody lived there
On this group of small Islands way out in the sea.
Except for the wild life that thrived on the shores
Nesting and breeding so wild and so free.

Tussac bogs covered most of this land
Because no animals lived there to eat it.
The unspoilt beauty, the rolling blue seas
But that would soon change bit by small bit.

Man would discover these Islands quite soon
That’s what happened in fifteen ninety two.
Since that first sighting by Captain John Davis
Others would claim them if History is true.

For many long years man came and then went.
But each time they made change to what was so pure.
The tussac was eaten by cattle and sheep
It would not be the same again that was for sure.

Houses sprang up in every inlet and bay
The land was fenced up to carry the stock.
People laid claims to sections of land
They imported the workers to care for their stock.

In two hundred years the population grew
So did agriculture, the animals too.
The numbers kept growing, business was good
The introductions of machines a major break through.

Modernisation was now setting in
On a land that was once wild and free.
Now more than three thousand inhabitants dwell
In houses they built by the sea.