A Summer Tamarind - Martin Newell

She took a deep breath

And made a wish list

She had a sweet tooth

She got some ginger

A little cinnamon

And squeezed the lime juice

That’s how it went

Yakking in the kitchen

With a female friend

At ten to ten

Wondering what it was

She was missing again

A summer tamarind

A summer tamarind

And with the lights lit

Along the shoreline

And the guitars out

Like any pop wife

She’d had a shop life

With all the stars out

That’s how it rang

Standing on the beach

With the sturm and drang

At midnight five

Feeling like the

Place was coming alive

A summer tamarind

A summer tamarind

And here come the high

Clouds of summer

Chasing their tails in July

They don’t understand when

The waves leave the sand

It’s goodbye

Always goodbye

A summer tamarind

A summer tamarind