Maui Girl - Sylvester Thomas Kalama

I love a pretty Maui girl She lives at Waikapū With rosy cheeks and pearly teeth And lovely nut brown hair Her waist is oh so slender Her ʻōpū too much nuinui And of all the wahine I ever did aloha Sweet Maria beats them all Hui: My love for you, ua hiki aku nō Your love with me, ua pēlā nō Don't tell Māmā a kulikuli She'll tell Papa a luliluli Nuinui pilikia with me now|   Her father keeps a taro patch ranch Next door to Bill Cornwell's sugar mill And being on a Sunday night To see them there I went As I was strolling through the cane field As on my way I roam It's there I met sweet Maria As she drove the puaʻa home I took my Maria for a walk Among the bright green grass It's there I whisper words of love Unto this young country lass I placed my arm around her ʻōpū And sat down by her side And asked her to be true And be my loving bride And now we name the wedding day And how happy we should be No thought of pilikia shall enter The mind of her or me But in her farm house We'll both be happy night and day And our life shall pass like sunshine For we'll always be loving and gay

Source: P. Keli'i-Vredenburg - Composed by Sylvester Thomas Kalama in the late 1800's, Maria is pronounced Maraea in the older versions. © 1892 W.E Reynolds