ALA MOANA
© 1927
Lyrics: Bob Lukens, Music: Johnny Noble
Sheet Music: Irving Berlin, Inc., New York
Recordings:
CD:
Out where the golden sun is shining
Down on an island far away
Just to be there my heart is pining
And I'll be back again some day
Down on the Ala Moana
Where I chanced to stray
Beneath the palm trees swaying
Where ululeles play
I met a dusky maiden
She stole my heart away
Underneath the tropic skies
Oh how she wiggled and she rolled her eyes
In the land of paradise
She stole my heart away
My heart is ever yearning
To see her smile once more
And soon I'll be returning
To fair Hawaii's shore
Where the waves are rolling
To the strains of harmony
on the Ala Moana
Where I long to be
I've seen the sights of ev'ry city
I've been in ev'ry foreign clime
But there is no place with girls so pretty
Songbirds are singing all the time
Down on the Ala Moana
Life is just sublime.
Source: sheet music in Bishop Museum archives.
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