Barry, that sounds like an amazing experience you had with the traditional Hawai'ian music.


I know that most of the "Hawai'ian" songs I sing are hapa haole, but I've read that some of them (e.g. Charles E King's Ke Kali Nei Au - w English lyrics written later as "Hawai'ian Wedding Song") were adapted from traditional Island tunes, and IIRC, "My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua" was one of those.
Does anyone know if it was, indeed, based on a traditional Hawai'ian tune and, if so, what that song was?