DON'T SING ALOHA WHEN I GO
© 1926
Lyrics & Music: Ben Black, Walter Smith, Neil Morét
[Note: this is the order of names on the cover.
On the sheet music itself, Mr. Smith is credited first.]
Sheet Music: Villa Morét, San Francisco
On the inside cover is the first page of the marvelous "St. Louis Hop," which, it notes, is a 'flea hop' or fox trot. The back cover has a
gem called "Thanks for the Buggy Ride." Adding these tantalizing first pages of other songs by the same publisher to another composition
was a common practice.
Recordings:
LP: Clara Inter [Hilo Hattie], My Hawaii (Hui Records H-100
Way out in Honolulu
Just at the close of day
I heard a sailor sing
Unto a dusky maid
Just as his ship slowly sailed away
Don't sing aloha when I go
Because I'm coming back you know
Don't sing aloha tho' I cry
Our parting does not mean goodbye
I'll dream of you in Waikiki
That's where I'll always long to be
Just smile and say you'll miss me so
Don't sing aloha when I go
Way out in Honolulu
Once more the close of day
There sleeps a dusky maid
Beneath the palmtrees shade
And in her dreams she can hear him say
Don't sing aloha when I go
Because I'm coming back you know
Don't sing aloha tho' I cry
Our parting does not mean goodbye
I'll dream of you in Waikiki
That's where I'll always long to be
Just smile and say you'll miss me so
Don't sing aloha when I go
Mahalo nui to James Smith for so generously supplying the sheet music composed by his grandfather, Walter Smith, as well as biographical material.
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