- Kaulana nâ pua a`o Hawai`i
- Kûpa`a ma hope o ka `âina
- Hiki mai ka `elele o ka loko `ino
- Palapala `ânunu me ka pâkaha
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- Pane mai Hawai`i moku o Keawe
- Kôkua nâ Hono a`o Pi`ilani
- Kâko`o mai Kaua`i o Mano
- Pa`apû me ke one Kâkuhihewa
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- `A`ole a`e kau i ka pûlima
- Ma luna o ka pepa o ka `ênemi
- Ho`ohui `âina kû`ai hewa
- I ka pono sivila a`o ke kanaka
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- `A`ole mâkou a`e minamina
- I ka pu`u kâlâ o ke aupuni
- Ua lawa mâkou i ka pôhaku
- I ka `ai kamaha`o o ka `âina
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- Ma hope mâkou o Lili`ulani
- A loa`a ê ka pono o ka `âina
- *(A kau hou `ia e ke kalaunu)
- Ha`ina `ia mai ana ka puana
- Ka po`e i aloha i ka `âina
- *Alternate Stanza
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- Famous are the children of
Hawai`i
- Ever loyal to the land
- When the evil-hearted messenger
comes
- With his greedy document of
extortion
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- Hawai`i, land of Keawe answers
- Pi`ilani's bays help
- Mano's Kaua`i lends
support
- And so do the sands of
Kakuhihewa
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- No one will fix a signature
- To the paper of the
enemy
- With its sin of
annexation
- And sale of native civil
rights
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- We do not value
- The government's sums of
money
- We are satisfied with the
stones
- Astonishing food of the
land
- We back Lili`ulani
- Who has won the rights of the
land
- *(She will be crowned
again)
- Tell the story
- Of the people who love their
land
- *Alternate
Stanza
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Source: Na Mele
o Hawai`i Nei by Elbert &
Mahoe - Written Jan. 1893, published in 1895, this himeni opposed the
annexation of Hawai`i to the United States. The original
title was Mele `Ai Pohaku or The Stone-eating Song, and was
also known as Mele Aloha `Aina or the Patriot's Song. This
song was composed as Ellen Wright Prendergast was sitting in
the garden of her father's house in Kapalama. Members of the
Royal Hawaiian Band visited her and voiced their unhappiness
at the takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom. They begged her to
put their feelings of rebellion to music.
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Ellen
Keho`ohiwaokalani Wright Prendergast
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