- Kaulana ka inoa o Mâlolo
- Mahimahi o ke kai o Maleka
He nani hiehie kou `oneki
- Me ke anianiku e kilohi nei
Uluwehiwehi ke kaona i ka`u `ike
- Ka auwa`a Mâlolo a Kamehameha
Ho`okomo i ke awa a o Mâmala
- Me ke kapa `ahu`ula kau po`ohiwi
Lei ana i ka pua ka liko lehua
- `Âwili `ia me maile lauli`i
E ô e Mâlolo i kou inoa
- Ke kuini o ka moana Pakipika
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- Famous is the name of the
Mâlolo
- Dolphin in the sea of
America
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- Grand is your
deck
- Beautiful the upright mirrors
-
- I see the town so verdant and
beautiful
- The Mâlolo like
Kamehameha's canoe fleet
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- Entering Mamala channel
- Red feather cloaks worn on
the shoulders
-
- Wearing leis of lehua
buds
- Entwined with small leafed
maile
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- We call your name Malolo,
answer
- Queen of the Pacific
Ocean
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Source: Noble's Hawaiian Hulas, Copyright
1963 Miller Music Corp - This mele has 11 verses and was written
for the Matson liner, Mâlolo, (later re-named the Matsonia) that
sailed
between
San Francisco
and Hawai`i. In 1929, localites returning home compared their
trip to ancient voyagers who sailed with Kamehameha I over
the same route. Verse 5, stanza 1, from a distance the lehua lei looked
like red feather cloaks, verse 4, stanza 2. The Matsonia served
the Hawaiian Islands for 21 years and was finally sold in
1948.
Translator
unknown,
Recorded
by Kahauanu
Lake Trio "Ke
Po`okela"Album |