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Me ʻoe ka ʻano`i e ka ʻāhihi
- Ka lei milikaʻa a kaʻu aloha
He aloha makamae kai hiki mai
- He ʻala honehone i ka puʻuwai
He waiwai ʻoe i kaʻu ʻike
- Ua kehakeha i luna aʻo Lanihuli
Huli mai nō ʻoe ʻolu kāua
- I mehana hoʻi au aʻi ko poli
Haʻina ka puana no kuʻu lei
- Ka pua ʻāhihi aʻo Lanihuli
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With you is my desire, o ʻāhihi
- The lei caressed over and over
by my love
- It is a precious love, that
comes to me
- A fragrance teasing the
heart
- You are of great value in my
sight
- High above Lanihuli
- Turn to me, let us comfort one
another
- Let me be warmed by your
bosom
- The story is told for my
lei
- The ʻāhihi blossom of
Lanihuli
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Source: Pamai Tenn Collection - Maddy Lam composed
this song for Kahauanu Lake, as a gift to Maiki Aiu. This was first
danced
by April Peeples Chock and presented as a hoʻokupu to Maiki.
She loved the mele and it became the signature song of her halau.
This mele compares a sweetheart to the beautiful ʻāhihi blossom. The ʻāhihi, a low spreading shrub-like
bush with a twisted trunk (Metrosiderous) is a form of
lehua. Lanihuli is the peak west of the Nuʻuanu pali gap
where the ʻāhihi grows profusely. Music clip by Tonya Ferris © 1964
Criterion Music Corp
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