GOTTA HANA HANA NOW
© 1943
Lyrics & Music: Jack Jenkins
This patriotic wartime song is subtitled 'A New Pidgin English Hula' featured by Don McDiarmid and his
Orchestra.
The unusual Pidgen credits read 'Jack Jenkins -- he feex words and music but he say like dees: O.K. play
and sing but betta you work to win/'
Sheet Music: Tropic tunes Publishing
Recordings:
CD:
Kane's gotta hana hana now
Hana hana till de war ees pau
So I work inside Pearl Haba wid my fada
Kane's gotta hana hana now
Got no time for try to catch de feesh
Even got no time for steal one kees
How I mees de ukuleles and de hula hula babies
Kane's gotta hana hana now
CHORUS:
Our Uncle Sam's got pilikia nui
And he needs kokua now
So we geev it to heem one big hui
Teel Tojosan and Hirohitosan are pau
Got no time for drink 'em ahp de 'oke'
You rememba how we meex de 'coke'
But it makes de head unruly, and we no can be pupule
Kane's gotta hana hana now
Seesta's gotta hana hana now
Like my bradda do teel war is pau
So I make de camoflages so de neeps no see da houses
Seesta's gotta hana hana now
Got no time for sweeng and sway de dance
Got no time for flirt or geev one glance
No mo' time for heah de wheestle or to read de sweet epeestle
Seesta's gotta hana hana now
CHORUS:
Source: sheet music.
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