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Mele Kalikimaka
Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou! (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!)
Lyrics:
Mele KaIikimaka is the thing to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day
That’s the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele KaIikimaka is Hawaii’s way
To say “Merry Christmas to you”.
When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano
Learner: Swallows on a Mission
When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That’s the day you promised to come back to me
When you whispered, “Farewell”, in Capistrano
Twas the day the swallow flew out to sea
All the mission bells will ring
The chapel choir will sing
The happiness you’ll bring
Will live in my memory
When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That’s the day I pray that you’ll come back to
Sea Lion Shuffle
words and music by MaryLee Sunseri
A sea lion doesn’t roar,
He just harks
From early in the morning
Til late in the dark
He can’t stalk around
‘Cause he don’t have feet
And it ain’t no jungle at the end of our street.
In Monterey town way up on the hill
The fishermen live like they always will
Fishin’ for the mornin’ sun gives ‘em light
And listenin’ to the lions bark
Deep in the night
Sometimes you see lions out on the rocks
They sleep altogether as sheep in flocks
Slippin’ and a’flippin’ at the break of the day
They beg for fish
Down at Monterey Bay.
You know, people come from miles around
They hear there’s a jungle at the end of our town
They hear we’ve got lions they can feed down there
But the lions don’t roar
And we don’t care…
MAUI SNARING THE SUN
Legends of Maui
–A Demi-God of Polynesia and His Mother Hina
by W. D. Westervelt
[1910]
“Maui became restless and fought the sun
With a noose that he laid.
And winter won the sun,
And summer was won by Maui.”
–Queen Liliuokalani’s family chant.
