- Kaulana ka inoa o Mālolo
- Mahimahi o ke kai o Maleka
He nani hiehie kou ʻoneki
- Me ke anianikū e kilohi nei
Uluwehiwehi ke kaona i kaʻu ʻike
- Ka auwaʻa Mālolo a Kamehameha
Hoʻokomo i ke awa a o Māmala
- Me ke kapa ʻahuʻula kau poʻohiwi
Lei ana i ka pua ka liko lehua
- ʻĀwili ʻia me maile lauliʻi
E ō e Mālolo i kou inoa
- Ke kuini o ka moana Pākipikā
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- Famous is the name of the
Mālolo
- Dolphin in the sea of
America
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- Grand is your
deck
- Beautiful the upright mirrors
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- I see the town so verdant and
beautiful
- The Mālolo like
Kamehameha's canoe fleet
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- Entering Māmala channel
- Red feather cloaks worn on
the shoulders
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- Wearing leis of lehua
buds
- Entwined with small leafed
maile
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- We call your name Mālolo,
answer
- Queen of the Pacific
Ocean
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Source: Noble's Hawaiian Hulas, - This mele has 11 verses and was written
for the Matson liner, Mālolo, (later re-named the Matsonia) that
sailed
between
San Francisco
and Hawaiʻi. In 1929, localites returning home compared their
trip to ancient voyagers who sailed with Kamehameha I over
the same route. Verse 5, stanza 1, From a distance the lehua lei looked
like red feather cloaks, verse 4, stanza 2. The Matsonia served
the Hawaiian Islands for 21 years and was finally sold in
1948.
Recorded
by Kahauanu
Lake Trio "Ke
Po`okela"Album. Translator
unknown,
©
1963 Miller Music Corp |