A popular song from 1916.
Words by Chas. McCarron and Lew Brown.
Music by Albert Von Tilzer.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- It’s goin’ to get you, it’s goin’ to get you
The Honolulu Hicki Boola Boo
I’m goin’ to let you, I’m goin’ to let you
See the way a Hula, does the Hicki Boola
Down in Honolu, I’ll show you what they do
Chorus
Step up forward, then retreat
Keep your fingers going while you move your feet
Slide up, glide up, nice and slow
The music sighin’, is real Hawaiian
When the ukuleles play
It simply carries you away
You do the “Yacki Hicki Dola” ‘way down low
You knock your knees together and away you go
Come on, Honey, that’s the way you do the
Honolulu Hicki Boola Boo
- It’s so peculiar, it’s so peculiar
That Honolulu Hicki Boola Boo
It’s bound to fool you, it’s bound to fool you
Ev’ry little movement, has a new improvement
That may puzzle you but it’s not hard to do
Sung here by Vancha March: