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17 Mar 98 - 06:26 PM (#24013) Subject: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: Charles Colyer Does anyone have the lyrics or a midi site for this tune? I remember hearing Arthur Godfrey sing it on his show some years ago. |
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17 Mar 98 - 09:31 PM (#24025) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: dwditty I just tried to transcribe the lyrics from a Dave Van Ronk album entitled "Songs for Aging Children." I'll have to keep working on it. There are way to many words that relay on a working vocabulary of Hawaiian. The album is circa 1973 (Cadet). |
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17 Mar 98 - 09:39 PM (#24027) Subject: Lyr Add: MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KEALAKEKUA, HI From: Joe Offer Are you sure you want to do that, dwditty? You're a glutton for punishment. I found it somewhere a while back - and I didn't have to do the typing. -Joe Offer- MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KE-A-LA-KE-KUA, HAWAII Words and music by Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison and Johnny Noble I want to go back to my little grass shack in Ke-a-la-ke-kua, Hawaii. I want to be with all the ka-nes and wa-hi-nes that I knew long ago. I can hear old guitars a-playing, on the beach at Ho-o-nau-nau I can hear the Hawaiians saying, "Ko-mo-mai no-ka-u-a i-ka ha-le we-la-ka-hao." 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 Ke-a-la-ke-kua, Hawaii. Where the hu-mu-hu-mu-nu-ku-nu-ku-a-pu-a'a goes swimming by. Where the hu-mu-hu-mu-nu-ku-nu-ku-a-pu-a'a goes swimming by. Added to DT Oct 1998. |
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17 Mar 98 - 11:15 PM (#24031) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: Barry Finn Kanes-boys wahines-girls Ko-mo-mai no-ka-u-a i-ka ha-le we-la-ka-hao - some kind of greating, I think, number one hello Kona #1 town on the Big Island (Hawaii) poi- staple food made from the ground up root of the taruo (sp?) plant, very blue in color Hu-mu-hu-mu-nu-ku-nu-ku, may be the ono or the flying fish? Mahalo, Barry |
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18 Mar 98 - 12:30 AM (#24035) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: Charles Colyer Thanks, dwditty, for the kind attempt at ttranscribing. Thanks, Joe, for the lyrics. And thanks, Barry, for the translations to complete the picture. All your efforts are appreciated. |
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28 Mar 98 - 01:51 PM (#24766) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: Ferrara Humu-humu-nuku-nuku-apua-a is a kind of triggerfish. You can see them in aquarium stores some times. Ugly thing with a crescent tail, pouty mouth and a wedge-shaped head. I kind of like them because of the song. The name means, more or less, "fish that swims along and grunts like a pig." I've never heard one grunt. Maybe they never grunt in captivity. |
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28 Mar 98 - 07:32 PM (#24806) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: chet w Anybody know "Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian" which I believe was co-written by two of my favorite songwriters whose names I can't remember right this minute (Wait, one of them is Fred Koller). Chet W. |
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28 Mar 98 - 08:20 PM (#24813) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: Frank Phillips According to page 40 of "Goin' Gone : A Fred Koller Songbook" the words and music to Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian are by Fred Koller and John Prine. Sort of figures if you think about it eh? Frank Phillips |
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29 Mar 98 - 04:51 PM (#24838) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: barstow In a somewhat similar Tropical Island motif, do any of you out there know the words to "Where did Ribinson Carusoe go with Friday on Saturday Night? |
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01 Apr 98 - 01:48 AM (#24897) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: Joe Offer Chet, would you believe that Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian is in the database? -Joe Offer- |
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02 Apr 98 - 08:23 PM (#25004) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au By Golly, I recall when Arthur Godfrey used to sing that song. Speaking of Hawiian songs, I would like to re-ask a question I posed some time ago. I am looking for the lyrics to "The Princess Poply has plenty of papaya". It was sung by various people including Apaka. Murray |
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14 Dec 98 - 04:09 AM (#49384) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: birdfarted@aol.com Does anyone know what happened to Tommy Harrison? |
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19 Nov 99 - 11:58 PM (#138630) Subject: RE: My Little Grass Shack In Kealekekua, Hawaii From: sam I was born and raised in Hawaii and I'm sorry, but I kinda giggled when I read some of the "translations" as to what some of the words meant. Humuhumunukunukuapua'a means "pig-snouted fish." If you ever saw one, you would know because they actually do look like they have a pig nose. Also, Komo mai no kaua i ka hale wela kahao means something more along the lines of "welcome to the two of us into the house that is hot." As you can kinda see, it's got a double entendre that is common in Hawaiian music.It's called the kaona, the hidden meaning.Just thought that I'd clear that up a little. I hope it enlightens. |