(In Kealakekua, Hawaii)
A popular song from 1933
Words and music by Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison and Johnny Noble
The sheet music:
Lyrics
There’s a place in Hawaii
That is very dear to me
I am homesick as can be
Won’t you listen to my plea?
Chorus
I want to go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawaii
I want to be with all the kanes and wahines
That I knew long ago
I can hear old guitars a-playing
On the beach at Hoonaunau
I can hear the Hawaiians saying
“Komomai no kaua ika hale welakahao”
It won’t be long when my ship
Will be sailing back to Kona
A grand old place that’s always fair to see
I’m just a little Hawaiian
And a homesick island boy
I want to go back to my fish and poi
I want to go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawaii
Where the Humuhumu, Nukunuku a puaa
Goes swimming by
Where the Humuhumu, Nukunuku a puaa
Goes swimming by