The Moonlighters

Track 1 – “Right On”

Wailua on the leeward side

Kailua on the windward side

Great to be by the sea

Right on right on right on.

Waikiki where the beach boys play

Kaimuki where they swing and sway

They all say "hey a hi a hey"

Right on right on right on.

Every weekend, there's a luau

Fish & poi and lau-lau

Then comes the tune of Wohalihau

And then you go to town.

When you're down in Honolulu

You do as the natives do,

And if you ever leave that hula-hula town remember, right, right on.

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Willie K

Track 2 – “Holoholo Ka`a”

Hawaiian

Kaua i ka holoholo ka`a

`Oni ana ka huila lawe a lilo

Ku`u aku `oe a pau pono

Na huahelu e kau ana

`Alawa iho `oe ma ka `ao`ao

H. ana ka makani hele uluulu

Mea `ole ka pi`ina me ka ihona

Me na k.ke`e alanui

`O ka pa k.nane a ka mahina

Ahuwale n. i ka pae `.pua

Eia kaua i ka pi`ina pau

A huli ho`i mai kaua

He mana`o ko`u i ke kani ko`ele

Ua haki ka pilina a`o luna iho

He la`i pono ke kaunu `ana

He nanea mai ho`i kau

Ha`ina k. wehi e ku`u lei

Ke huli ho`i nei kaua

Honi aku `oe i ka `ailea

Ke `oni nei ka huila

English

You and I on a joy ride

Wheels turn and carry us far away

Just relax until no more

Numbers come up

Glance to the sides

Wind whistles come in gusts

Climbing, going down, no matter

Or winding roads

The moon shines brightly

Fair upon the clouds

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We are on the heights up there

But turn and go back

I worry about the clanking sound

Springs broken top to bottom

Passion calmed

So delightful

Sing your song my beloved

We go home

Breathing gasoline

Wheels turning

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Ehukai

Track 3 – “Molokai Slide”

I like the sand spreading out to the sea

I like the tropical moon and the lazy palm trees

I like to listen to my heart,

there’s no place I’d rather be

I like the people, I like the way they smile

I like the feeling of you on this paradise isle

I like the cool island gecko, man this is where

I wanna be (ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)

CHORUS: (2x)

Take me back, back to da kine’

Take me back, back to da kine’

All over mo’ betta Molokai I will return

I like the gecko singin’ in the night

I like to do the dance they do to the Molokai slide

I like the hula, I think it’s really good

Woman I don’t understand the words, but in time

I think I could, if I just had the time,

Oh if I just had the time (ooh, ooh, ooh)

CHORUS

I say ah won’t you come along, we’ll have a

Lu’au by the sea

We’ll cook a little pig and all the coconuts are fee

What you see is what you get

In a little grass shack

I know you’re gonna like it and

I hope you come back

I like the fishes, swimmin’ in the sea

I like to hop ‘um on the grill an’ a cook ‘um up for me

With a big pan of butter,

Man it cant’ get better than this

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I like the chicken, we hop ‘um on the grill

Man it hurts to eat the raw fish and eat up all the spills

Uh huh, ooh yeath! It’s just a lu’au down by the sea!

(CHORUS 2x) all over, mo’ betta, molokaii I will return (2x)

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Teresa Bright

Track 4 – “The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai”

He wore a malo and a coconut hat

One was for this and the other for that

All the people shouted as he went by

He was the cockeyed mayor of Kaunakakai

He was just a lazy malihini haole boy

But all the girls were crazy

To share his fish and poi, Oh

He wore a lei and he wore a smile

He drank a gallon of oke to make life worthwhile

Then he made 'em laugh 'til he made 'em cry

He was the cockeyed mayor of Kaunakakai

The horse he rode was skinny

A broken down old female

So he placed a big p.nini

Right under that horse's tail, Oh

He made her buck and he made her fly

All over the island of Moloka‘i

You could hear the kanes and wahines cheer

As they gave him a lei of k.k.nia

Now you've heard my story

About the mayor of Kaunakakai

All his fame and glory

On the island of Moloka‘i

Oh he wore a malo and a coconut hat

One was for this and the other for that

All the people shouted as he went by

He was the cockeyed mayor of Kaunakakai

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Justin Young

Track 5 – “Pule O’o”

Hawaiian

‘O Moloka‘i, ka Pule O‘o

Kokoke mai n. koa o Pa‘ao

Küpa‘a ma ka ‘ae kai

E ‘onipa‘a, e ‘ole ka wiwo

E kono aku e pi‘i mai

‘A‘ole e kau ka pu‘u

H.pai a‘e i ka leo pule

No k.kou ka maluhia

N. ‘.ina kapu

N. ‘.ina la‘a

N. ka lima lani e m.lama

‘O ‘oe e ke kapa ‘ula

‘A‘ole e loa‘a i ka ihe

Hihia mai la i ke kai ko‘o

E p.kele aku i. Pule O‘o

Ha‘ina ‘ia mai ana ka puana

Hihi mai la i ke kai ko‘o

E p.kele aku i. Pule O‘o

English

Moloka ‘I, Pulo O ‘o

Pa ‘ao ‘s warriors drawn near

Stand as one one our shores

Hold faith, not fear

Let them come

But raise no fist

Raise only voices in prayer

For ours is peace

Sacred lands

Sacred lands

Sacred hands from above will protect

You in red kapa

Your spears will stray

And the ocean will disobey you

Retreat from Pule O ‘o

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The story is told

The ocean will disobey you

Retreat from Pule O ‘o

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Joe McDermott

Track 6 – “Come to Hawaii”

You’ve been working so hard

You need a vacation for the day

So I built a little paradise in the back yard

Where the breeze makes the cardboard palm trees sway

The neighbor girls with hula skirts a-flyin’

And the punch is genuine Hawaiian

CHORUS:

Come to Hawaii, come to Hawaii,

Come to Hawaii with me

A wading pool is the clear blue ocean

A sheet for the white Hawaiian sand

Bring your swimming suit in case you get the notion

We’ll eat pineapple fresh from the can

And if you close your eyes and dream

you’ll be amazed at just how real it seems

CHORUS

We hear our Mama call over the ocean

We know that it’s time to come in

She says “supper’s ready now get your bodies in motion”

And we know that our trip is at an end

But as we see the sun go down

It casts a tropical hue over our little town

CHORUS

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Raiatea

Track 7 – “P. La`ila`i”

Hawaiian

Kaua i ka holoholo

I ka p. mahina la`ila`i

E kilo ho`onanea

I na h.k. o ka lani

K. mai ana ke `ala

O ka pua `o ka p.kake

I halihali `ia mai

E ka makani kolonahe

Ho`olono ana i ke kani

Honehone a ka `ukulele

Me ka mele ho`ohau`oli

Ho`olana i ka pu`uwai

Huli aku kaua i uka

I ka a`a na kukui

Ua like me na h.k.

E kau ana i na pali

Ha`ina mai ka puana

No ka p. mahina la`ila`i

E kilo ho`onanea

I na h.k. o ka lani

Ha`ina mai ka puana

No ka po mahina la`ila`i

Ho`olono ana i ke kani

Honehone a ka `ukulele

English

Let's you and I go for a walk

On a clear moonlight night

To gaze with interest

At the stars in the sky

A fragrance is wafted hither

The perfume of the jasmine

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Brought here to us

By a gentle breeze

We will pause to listen

To the `ukulele's sweet refrain

With a melody so cheery

Uplifting the heart

Let us turn to look inland

As the brightness of the lights twinkle

Like many stars

Nestling on the hillside

This ends my song

Of a clear moonlight night

To gaze with interest

At the stars in the sky

This ends my song

Of a clear moonlight night

We will pause to listen

To the `ukulele's sweet refrain

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Robi Kahakalau

Track 8 – “Pi‘i Mai Ka Nalu”

Hawaiian

CHORUS:

Pi'i mai ka nalu, pi'i mai ka nalu

Kai lohe 'ia mai 'o a 'o

Pi'i mai ka nalu, pi'i mai ka nalu

E he'e nalu kakou

Aia ma ka po'ina kai

Na nalu nui mai Kahiki mai

Aia ma ka po'ina kai

Na nalu nui mai Kahiki mai

CHORUS

Pae ana 'oe i ka nalu nui

Kipapa ku a he'e mai

Pae ana 'oe i ka nalu nui

Kipapa ku a he'e mai

CHORUS

He'e ana i ka lala

Ho'i ana i ka muku la

CHORUS

English

CHORUS:

Surf's up, surf's up you can hear everywhere

Surf's up, surf's up, lets go surf

Surf's up, surf's up you can hear everywhere

Surf's up, surf's up, let's go surf

The giant waves that comes from far away

Are breaking

The giant waves that comes from far away

Are breaking

CHORUS

Catch one of those huge waves

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Paddle, stand up, and go for it

Catch one of those huge waves

Paddle, stand up and go for it

CHORUS

Surf out diagonally

Come back on the crest

CHORUS

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Imua

Track 9 – “Local to the Max”

Shorts and T-shirt all the time no matter where I’m at

Feather leis to put around my big lauhala hat

Puka shells around my neck and slippers on my feet

Living in Hawai’i nei you know it can’t be beat

Starry nights and sunny days

Tradewinds blow my cares away

Ain’t no place that I would rather be

CHORUS:

Because I’m local to the max

You know I’m local to the max

Slippers on my feet, I smile at everyone I meet

I’m local to the max

Surfing down a tidal wave that’s breaking on the shore

Pounded in the shore-break then I’m going out for more

Paddling a small canoe that takes me out to sea

Living in Hawai’I nei you know it can’t be beat

Starry nights and sunny days

Tradewinds blow my cares away

Ain’t no place that I would rather be

CHORUS

Papa going holoholo, Mama’s stringing leis

Tutu’s telling keiki’s ‘bout the hanabutta days, she says,

“Give aloha from your heart to everyone you meet”

That’s what makes Hawai’I nei the place for you and me

Starry nights and sunny days

Tradewinds blow my cares away

Ain’t no place that I would rather be

CHORUS:

Because I’m local to the max

You know I’m local to the max

Slippers on my feet, I smile at everyone I meet

I’m local to the max

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Keali ‘I Reichel

Track 10 – “The Toad Song”

Hawaiian

He kani kapalili i ka pōuliuli `o ke mele aloha a Poloka

E konikoni ana i ke ki'owai lepo me ka leo heahea i ka ipo

`O ka hōkū `imo`imo o ka lani lipolipo ke kukui e hō`ike mai nei

He mana`olana kona i ka ho`oniponipo me ka ipo ho`ohenoheno āna

Ua `oli`oli `o ia a ka pā `olu'olu o ke kilikilihune o ka ua

I ho`olalilali i ka `ili pu`upu`u ma ke kua `oma`oma`o ona

He kakali wale kona i ka lohe `ia aku o kāna mele o ke aumoe

A `ume`ume `ia kahi hoa kīkīko`ele e ka leo mikololohua

Mai kinohi loa mai a i kēia pō, ua lohe mau `ia kāna mele

Ma nā ki`owai lepo o nā `āina like `ole a hiki `auana`i i `ane`i

Ma waho iki aku o ka lumi moe o`u i ke kulukulu o ke aumoe

Ha`ina ka puana no ka maka pu`upu`u i pili hala `ole ke aloha

English

A sound of wobble bobble in the glooming that’s a looming, it is the lovely crooning of the Bufo

A throbbing and a bobbing in the middle of the puddle with a voice of invitation to the ipo

The winking and the blinking of a star up afar, is the light by which one might be seeing

He’s a foggin’ in his noggin to be squeezin’ and a teasin’ with the one true love of his dreamin’

He’s a happy, snappy fellow in the touch, oh so mellow, of the wisty misty falling of the showers

That bring a slimy shine to the lumpy, bumpy kind of the dark green skin on his shoulders

He’ll just wait for a date ‘til his song of the late night hour finds the ear of his beloved

And brought for his selection is a mate of sweet perfection, who is drawn by the eloquence

bestow-ed

From the very start of time to the evening of this rhyme his crooning always found a willing ear

In the midday bogs and strands of so many different lands, eventually arriving even here

Just there, close outside of this room where I reside, wide awake in the deepening of midnight

So let the tale be told of the lumpy, bumpy toad that has never failed to win his lovely birthright

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