Aloha kuʻu one hānau
ʻOluʻolu i ke ahe a ka makani
Aloha wau iā ʻoe
Lei Pimoe i ka ʻehukai
E Kanaio puna i ke kai
Onaona no kouʻala
Aloha wau iā ʻoe
Uʻi maoli kēia ʻāina
He aloha nou e Kanaio
I kuʻu manaʻo iā ʻoe
Aloha wau iā ʻoe
Haʻina ʻia mai ana ka puana
Aloha kuʻu one hānau
ʻOluʻolu i ke ahe a ka makani
Aloha wau iā ʻoe
Beloved is Kanaio- Love for my birthplace
- Cool and fresh in the breeze
- I love you
Pimoe wears a wreath of sea spray- Springs of Kanaio by the sea
- Sweet, your fragrance
- I love you
Freshly beautiful, this land- Is love for you Kanio
- In my thoughts of you
- I love you
The story is told- Love for my birthplace
- Cool and fresh in the breeze
- I love you
- Love for my birthplace
Nina Maxwell
Source: Pandanus Club
CD "Hoʻokupu",
Copyright Pandanus Club 1988 - On their first visit to lower
Kanaio, the composer and her husband, Charles Maxwell, Sr.,
passed the hill Pimoe. Pele was envious of Pimoe, a
beautiful mermaid known to entice men with her beauty. Pele,
in one of her jealous rages, immortalized Pimoe by turning
the mermaid to stone in the eruption of 1790. Sonny Kuaana,
born and raised in a grass hale on the beach, related the
story of this hill to them. Sonny took them down to the
ocean where he was born and showed them how his mother would
dry her lauhala leaves in lava mounds built for this
purpose. He also showed them the fresh water cave they used
for drinking water and the brackish water cave used by the
cattle. Sonny showed the composer and her husband his
Aumakua, a huge tiger shark that lives in the ocean. When
they went onto the papa (reef), he called to his Aumakua,
who immediately swam into the shallow water. The composer, a
prominent kumu hula in Maui, was so impressed with Kanaio,
she wrote this song and dedicated it to Sonny Kuaana.