Verse 1
there's a place on earth where time is never tight
it's a special place that hearts and minds delight
all aboard symi isle's pedestrian motorway
Chorus 1
though she may take you up, she'll never make you down
you'll be feeliong right at home in the upper town
it's the purest medecine, gets rid of any frown
as your face lights up and you smile just like a clown
dancin
the KALISTRATA BOOGIE
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
makes green of a blue day
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
Verse 2
from the high hill tops she descends down to the sea
on the magic isle where time and tide runs free
there's no place on this earth i'd rather be
Chorus 2
where the sun beats down, smiling all around
where all you seek, in abundance can be found
to the reciprocal pleasures charter you are bound
as you cap off many a night to the joyful sound
mmm, that joyful sound
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
hip, hip and ahooray
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
takes you down and now she'll take you up
Guitar Solo
Re-intro
Verse 3
to the left is gorgios, to the right the butcher's shop
as the cobbles run to the museum at the top
i can think of nothing, no there's nothing i would swop
Chorus 3
as you move to the side, there's a donkey train coming through
also a man in a box with a gleaming shoe
as the ever turning circle once more renews
and a harmonic, symphonic heart strings nearly blow a fuse
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
KALISTRATA BOOGIE
yay, hip, hip hooray
Comment:- There is a slong set of steps and ramps that link the harbour to the upper village in Symi called The Kalistrata (The Good Street). It has flights of mostly 6 steps then sloping ramps then more steps, repeat....... The young locals skip down the stairs to the rhythm of a shuffle and that inspired me to write this ZZ Toppish ditty!
