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Thread #1332   Message #4221
Posted By: Ralph Butts
22-Apr-97 - 11:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua...
Subject: Lyr Add: MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KEALAKEKUA...
This from a Ukulele Ike songbook (OLD!). There are probably more verses, all the songs in this book are shortened......Tiger

My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii
Words and music by Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison and Johnny Noble
c1933 Miller Music Corp, NYC, renewed 1961

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 ikahale welakahao."

It won't be long 'til 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.

I want to go.....(repeat all)


Added to DT Oct 1998.