Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop - by Don McDiarmid, Sr & John Noble
When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop There's not a bit of use for a traffic cop For everything and everybody comes to a stop When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop The sugar raises cane the palms trees sigh The ukuleles fret and the birds won't fly The Humuhumunukunukus stop swimming by When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop Hui: That wahine has an opu With a college education There's no motion she don't go thru  She doesn't leave a thing to your imagination Hattie does a dance no law would allow A crater got a look and it's sizzling now She'd better watch her step or everything will be pau When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop Hui: They took Hattie to the hoosegow Hattie went along quite gaily She said "Oh judge, turn me loose now, I'll do my dance while you play your ukulele." Hattie should've died from too much gin But she will never pay for her life of sin. St. Peter's gonna take a look and say "come on in" When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop	Clara Haili Nelson Hilo Hattie
Source: Derek Lamar, Hawaiian Music and Musicians by George Kanahele, Noble's Hawaiian Favorites, Copyright 1936, 64 Miller Music Corp. - Don McDiarmid, Sr. was part of the Harry Owens band at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in 1935, when he wrote this song. Judged a clever tune about a sexy siren, it was not 'high class' enough to be performed at the hotel. McDiarmid set it aside and about a year later, Clara Inter, a school teacher and member of Louise Akeo's Royal Hawaiian Girls' Glee Club found the song and performed it on a trip to Canada with the glee club. In the summer of 1937, while leading his own band in the Monarch Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Clara Inter insisted on performing this song that catapulted the composer and dancer to fame. Clara was so closely indentified with the song, she adopted the title as her legal name