We from Pitcairn Island. We welcome you today
We’re glad you come to see us  but soon you’ll sail away
We hope you will remember, The love we try to show
The friendships we have made today remains though you must go

CHORUS
We will miss you as you journey on your way
We do wish that you with us could ever stay
But we know that God will keep us in his hands
Perhaps one day we’ll meet again on this far distant strand

Our Island is so tiny encircle by the sea
Its shoreline is so rugged as you so well can see
Yet we so dearly love it our homes are also there
And if you come our way again our welcome you may share

CHORUS

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Pitcairn Island
"We From Pitcairn Island"

Words by:unknown
Music by:Frederick M. Lehman
Adopted:unknown

The Pitcairn Islands are a remote British colony in the South Pacific, famous
for being the site where the mutineers from the HMS Bounty landed. The islands'
population have always been very small (currently numbering around 50), yet,
aside from the official anthem of God_Save_the_Queen (which is not heard often
on the islands), there have been, and continue to be, many unofficial anthems
in use in the colony.
In Diana Jolliffe Belcher's 1871 book "The Mutineers of the Bounty and their
Decendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk Island" it is reported that a local poem by
Rev. G. H. Nobbs was set to the tune "Rousseau's_Dream" and was considered by
Pitcairners to be their anthem at the time. It is not known for how long this
was considered as their anthem, however. Also, in 1856, several Pitcairners
resettled on Norfolk_Island as Pitcairn had become too small. The local anthem
now in use on Norfolk Island, Come_Ye_Blessed, is also referred to as the
"Pitcairn Anthem", and more than likely was brought to the island by the
Pitcairn settlers, suggesting that this anthem was in use on Pitcairn at that
time.

Currently, the song "We From Pitcairn Island" (to the tune of the hymn "The
Royal Telephone") is used as an unofficial anthem at gatherings and the like.
Other songs, such as "The Goodbye Song" (written by Pitcairner Amelia Young)
and the hymn "In The Sweet By and By" are considered unofficial "Pitcairn
songs" at gatherings as well.

Special thanks to:Leslie Jaques (Pitcairn Islands Commissioner) and Bert H de
la Houssaye for some of this information and Meralda Warren for additional
information and the lyrics.

See also: United_Kingdom.
