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Source: Makalena, Translated by Dennis Kamakahi, Copyright
1977, Naukilo Publishing Co. - This song was written in 1977 at Tacoma, WA.
while the composer did a concert at the Federal Prison on McNeil Island in
Puget Sound. It was a lu`au put on by the Hawaiian inmates (the first of
it's kind). The composer was playing with Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawai`i
at the time. The group was invited to represent Hawai`i by Governor George
Ariyoshi. The composer was undecided, at that time, whether to return to
Hawai`i or go back to Alaska, where he had decided to make his home. Waiting
back in Hawai`i was his future wife. Perhaps absence does make the heart
yearn for true love when one is separated by distance. After the concert,
the composer
called her on the phone and proposed to her with this song. Dennis Kamakahi
and his wife just celebrated their 25th Wedding Anniversary July 16, 2002 |
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