He Lei Pāpahi No Lilo a me Stitch (From "Lilo & Stitch (2025)")

21 Aug 2025

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Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ālohaloha nui nā pua ʻauliʻi
Kilipohe i ka ʻohu ʻolu o ka pūnohu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Great love for the precious flowers
Delicately crowned in the gentle mist of the rainbow glow

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ka pipiʻo mai o ke ānuenue
Nā waihoʻoluʻu hoʻohālike ʻole ē
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The arching of the rainbow appears
With colors uniquely unmatched

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

E nānā nā maka i ke ao kupanaha
Mai Hawaiʻi ākea a i Kauaʻi
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Let the eyes gaze upon the wondrous world
From wide Hawaiʻi to Kauaʻi

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

He lei pāpahi kēia
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi i aloha ʻia
Haiʻai ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is a splendid lei
For my beautiful flower who is beloved
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

Mohala maila i ka mauna
Māewa i ka maka o ka ʻōpua
Lupea ka nae kolopua
I hali mai i ke āhea makani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
She blossoms on the mountain
Graceful in the eyes of the clouds
The adorned brow is covered in blossoms
Carried here by the gentle breeze

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

Āwā hoʻi ke kani a kau hānaiāhulu
Ka ʻaka helē ʻuhene i ʻō i ʻaneʻi
Lā wai kēia lei pāpahi?
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi ke aloha
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Resounding is the voice of your cherished caregiver
A smile, a playful giggle flutters here
For whom is this adorned lei?
For my beautiful flower, the love

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

He lei pāpahi kēia
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is a splendid lei

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

He lei pāpahi kēia
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi i aloha ʻia
Haiʻai ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is a splendid lei
For my beautiful flower who is beloved
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Mohala maila i ka mauna
Māewa i ka maka o ka ʻōpua
Lupea ka nae kolopua
I hali mai i ke āhea makani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
She blossoms on the mountain
Graceful in the eyes of the clouds
The adorned brow is covered in blossoms
Carried here by the gentle breeze

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ālohaloha nui nā pua ʻauliʻi
Kilipohe i ka ʻohu ʻolu o ka pūnohu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Great love for the precious flowers
Delicately crowned in the gentle mist of the rainbow glow

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Hiʻa ʻia ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
Lā wai kēia lei pāpahi?
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi ke aloha
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face
For whom is this adorned lei?
For my beautiful flower, the love

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

He lei pāpahi me ke aloha... kūlele
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
A splendid lei with love... hooray!

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ālohaloha nui nā pua ʻauliʻi
Kilipohe i ka ʻohu ʻolu o ka pūnohu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Great love for the precious flowers
Delicately crowned in the gentle mist of the rainbow glow

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ka pipiʻo mai o ke ānuenue
Nā waihoʻoluʻu hoʻohālike ʻole ē
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The arching of the rainbow appears
With colors uniquely unmatched

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

E nānā nā maka i ke ao kupanaha
Mai Hawaiʻi ākea a i Kauaʻi
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Let the eyes gaze upon the wondrous world
From wide Hawaiʻi to Kauaʻi

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

He lei pāpahi kēia
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi i aloha ʻia
Haiʻai ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is a splendid lei
For my beautiful flower who is beloved
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

Mohala maila i ka mauna
Māewa i ka maka o ka ʻōpua
Lupea ka nae kolopua
I hali mai i ke āhea makani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
She blossoms on the mountain
Graceful in the eyes of the clouds
The adorned brow is covered in blossoms
Carried here by the gentle breeze

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

Āwā hoʻi ke kani a kau hānaiāhulu
Ka ʻaka helē ʻuhene i ʻō i ʻaneʻi
Lā wai kēia lei pāpahi?
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi ke aloha
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Resounding is the voice of your cherished caregiver
A smile, a playful giggle flutters here
For whom is this adorned lei?
For my beautiful flower, the love

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

He lei pāpahi kēia
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is a splendid lei

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

He lei pāpahi kēia
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi i aloha ʻia
Haiʻai ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is a splendid lei
For my beautiful flower who is beloved
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Mohala maila i ka mauna
Māewa i ka maka o ka ʻōpua
Lupea ka nae kolopua
I hali mai i ke āhea makani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
She blossoms on the mountain
Graceful in the eyes of the clouds
The adorned brow is covered in blossoms
Carried here by the gentle breeze

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ālohaloha nui nā pua ʻauliʻi
Kilipohe i ka ʻohu ʻolu o ka pūnohu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Great love for the precious flowers
Delicately crowned in the gentle mist of the rainbow glow

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Hiʻa ʻia ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
Lā wai kēia lei pāpahi?
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi ke aloha
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face
For whom is this adorned lei?
For my beautiful flower, the love

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

He lei pāpahi me ke aloha... kūlele
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
A splendid lei with love... hooray!

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ālohaloha nui nā pua ʻauliʻi
Kilipohe i ka ʻohu ʻolu o ka pūnohu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Great love for the precious flowers
Delicately crowned in the gentle mist of the rainbow glow

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ka pipiʻo mai o ke ānuenue
Nā waihoʻoluʻu hoʻohālike ʻole ē
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The arching of the rainbow appears
With colors uniquely unmatched

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

E nānā nā maka i ke ao kupanaha
Mai Hawaiʻi ākea a i Kauaʻi
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Let the eyes gaze upon the wondrous world
From wide Hawaiʻi to Kauaʻi

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

He lei pāpahi kēia
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi i aloha ʻia
Haiʻai ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is a splendid lei
For my beautiful flower who is beloved
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Mohala maila i ka mauna
Māewa i ka maka o ka ʻōpua
Lupea ka nae kolopua
I hali mai i ke āhea makani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
She blossoms on the mountain
Graceful in the eyes of the clouds
The adorned brow is covered in blossoms
Carried here by the gentle breeze

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Ālohaloha nui nā pua ʻauliʻi
Kilipohe i ka ʻohu ʻolu o ka pūnohu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Great love for the precious flowers
Delicately crowned in the gentle mist of the rainbow glow

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

Hiʻa ʻia ka manaʻo ke ʻike aku
I kona helehelena onaona
Lā wai kēia lei pāpahi?
No kuʻu pua ʻuʻi ke aloha
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The heart swells when I behold
Her gentle and fragrant face
For whom is this adorned lei?
For my beautiful flower, the love

Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus

He lei pāpahi me ke aloha... kūlele
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
A splendid lei with love... hooray!