[Verse 1]

When I was nineteen

There were places that I wanted to see

When I was twenty

Cornell University

And Kefalonia

Didn't mean anything to me

I read the classics

But I didn't read thoroughly

[Chorus]

When I go to Ithaca

When I come back

From America

You'll be with me

[Verse 2]

You found freedom

In a chamber of the library

You dig the roots up

With the old etymology

In Kefalonia

And the blue Ionian sea

The way I know ya

Is like an old old olive tree

[Chorus]

When I go to Ithaca

When I come back

From America

You'll be with me

[Outro]

When I go to Ithaca

When I come back

To South Africa

You'll be with me