Beautiful Isles of Paradise - Words by C.R. Cox, music by Henry Kailimai


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I can hear the surf on the beaten sand
And the wind in the cocoa trees
And they bear me away to a fairy land
In far off tropic seas

Beautiful Isles of Paradise
Moored in a summer sea
In the land of dreams
Where the coral gleams
An Eden lies waiting for me

I can see a pair of laughing eyes
And a mouth that always smiles
And I wished I had stayed with my brown maid
In those wonderful Paradise Isles

Source: Book of Golden Hawaiian Songs, Copyright 1915 Miller Music Corp. Music clip by Gippy Cooke