O Sweet Saint Martin's Land is the bi-national song of Saint Martin/Sint-Maarten island, in the Caribbean, this island being divided between France and Kingdom of the Netherlands.
This full original version was written by the French side Catholic Father Gerard Kemps in 1958.
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