- Kâua i ka huahua`i
- E `uhene lâ i pili ko`olua
- Pukuku`i lua i ke ko`eko`e
- Hanu lipo o ka palai
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- Hui:
- Auwê ka hua`i lâ
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- `Auhea wale ana `oe
E ka`u mea e li`a nei
Mai hô`apa`apa mai `oe
O loa`a pono kâua
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I aloha wau iâ `oe
I kâu hanahana pono
La`i a`e ke kaunu me ia la
Hô`apa`apai ka mana`o
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Prince
Leleiôhoku
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- You and I in the spray
- Such joy, the two of us
together
- Embracing tightly in the
coolness
- Breathing deep of the palai
fern
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- Chorus:
- Oh, such spray
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- Listen
My desire
Don't linger
Lest we be found
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I loved you
Your warmth
Calmed passion
Preventing thought
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Source: Na Mele O Hawai`i Nei by Sam
Elbert & Noelani Mahoe - Known as the Hawaiian War
Chant, this is really a love ballad. Prince William Pitt
Leleiohokukalaho`olewa (1854-1877) was the brother of King
David Kalakaua, Queen Liliuokalani and Princess Miriam
Likelike. His name, "flight on the day of the full moon",
commemorates the funeral of Kamehameha III. A gifted
composer, it was believed he would have been a wise king had
he not died prematurely of rheumatic fever, at age
22.
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