AINA ALOHA (ALOHA LAND)
© 1916
Hawaiian Lyrics: Chas. E. King; English Lyrics & Music: Bill Stroud
The sheet music cover says: "Sung by Hawaii's Sweetest Singers," and "Inscribed to Our Hawaiian Music Boys
Away From Home."
Sheet Music: Wm. H. Stroud, Honolulu
Recordings:
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ENGLISH:
Sometimes when this life seems cold and dreary
In the busy city far away from friends
And perhaps in the struggle you've grown weary
Or the shadow of advancing years descends
Your thoughts turn to fairy land and heaven
And you wish that from your worries you were free
Le me take you to the place the poets dream of
You just say 'Goodbye' and come along with me
Its green hills and purple colored mountains
Reflecting double rainbows from the moon
Look down on waving palm trees, ferns, and fountains
Where sweethearts play at honi (that's spoon)
You'll then learn the meaning of aloha
It's that feeling there that makes the whole world kin
At the tsime you're going to leave it, or have left it
You will realize and know that you have been
CHORUS:
Down where the warm Pacific's flowing
To a lovely spot where kindly hearts are glowing
Paradise, Hawaii nei! Always like the mongh of May
That is why they came to say 'Aloha Land.'
HAWAIIAN:
Ia oe e noho hookahi ana
I ke anu o ka aina malihini
Kaawale mai na hoa me na kini
A luuluu kau maha oe
Upu ae ka iini no ka aina
I puia i ke ala o na pua
Ho ae kaua ilaila
Ai ike i na nani o kuu home
Na kuahiwi uli na kualono
Ke a nuenue pio mau
Ka holu a ka lau o ka niu
Na wehi ou e Hawaii e
Na ou mau nani i hea aku
I na lahui like ole e kipa mai
Noho like na malihini me na kupa
Na ke aloha i ume a paa
CHORUS
He momi no ka Pakipika
Aina i ka maka o ka opua
Lua ole kou nani a e Hawaii nei
Home pumehana i ke aloha
Source: sheet music in Bihop Museum archives.
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