He Mele No Lilo (From "Lilo & Stitch (2003)")
Editor
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Mahalo nui iā, ke ali'i wahine/ke Kuini o Hawaiʻi
'O Lili'ulani, oka Wohi ku/kū i ka moku i ke Kalaunu
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Greatest praise to her majesty/the Queen Of Hawaii
Liliʻuokalani the Wohi ruler/ruler of the land and to the throne
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ka pipio mai o ke ānuenue (nā hana a ke aloha)
Nā waiho'olu'u a hālikeole'e (māʻalo ana i ka ua lana mālie)
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The great arches of rainbows (the works of love)
Beams of colors unrivaled (passing along with the gently flowing rains)
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
E nānā nā maka i ke ao mālama/i ka lani malama
Mai Hawai'i akea i Kaua'i/hōʻike mai ana lā i ka nani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Look at the breaking dawn/in the bright heavens
From the vastness of Hawaiʻi to Kauaʻi/the beauty is revealed
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu
'O Kalākaua he inoa
O ka pua mae 'ole i ka lā
Ka pua maila i ka mauna
I ke kuahiwi 'o Mauna Kea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Kalākaua is his name
The flower that never fades in the sun
The flower blooms on the mountain
On the high hill of Mauna Kea
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu
Ke ‘ā maila i Kīlauea
Mālamalama i Wahinekapu
A ka luna o Uwēkahuna
I ka pali kapu o Kaʻauea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Glowing white on Kīlauea
Illuminating Wahinekapu
Atop the high Uwēkahuna
Is the sacred cliff of Kaʻauea
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ea mai ke aliʻi kia manu
Ua wehi i ka hulu o ka mamo
Ka pua nani aʻo Hawaiʻi
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Bring forth the king of birdcatchers
To adorn him in the feathers of the mamo
The beautiful flower of Hawaiʻi
Kalākaua is his name
Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
ʻO Ka pua maeʻole i ka lā
Ka pua maila i ka mauna
I ke kuahiwi ʻo Mauna Kea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Kalākaua is his name
The flower that never fades in the sun
The flower blooms on the mountain
On the high hill of Mauna Kea
Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ke ‘ā maila i Kīlauea
Mālamalama i Wahinekapu
A ka luna o Uwēkahuna
I ka pali kapu o Kaʻauea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Glowing white on Kīlauea
Illuminating Wahinekapu
Atop the high Uwēkahuna
Is the sacred cliff of Kaʻauea
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Mahalo nui iā, ke ali'i wahine/ke Kuini o Hawaiʻi
'O Lili'ulani, oka Wohi ku/kū i ka moku i ke Kalaunu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Greatest praise to her majesty/the Queen Of Hawaii
Liliʻuokalani the Wohi ruler/ruler of the land and to the throne
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ea mai ke aliʻi kia manu
Ua wehi i ka hulu o ka mamo
Ka pua nani aʻo Hawaiʻi
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Bring forth the king of birdcatchers
To adorn him in the feathers of the mamo
The beautiful flower of Hawaiʻi
Kalākaua is his name
Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
He Inoa No Kalani Kalākaua Kulele
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A namesong for our chief, Kalākaua, cast forth
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Mahalo nui iā, ke ali'i wahine/ke Kuini o Hawaiʻi
'O Lili'ulani, oka Wohi ku/kū i ka moku i ke Kalaunu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Greatest praise to her majesty/the Queen Of Hawaii
Liliʻuokalani the Wohi ruler/ruler of the land and to the throne
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ka pipio mai o ke ānuenue (nā hana a ke aloha)
Nā waiho'olu'u a hālikeole'e (māʻalo ana i ka ua lana mālie)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The great arches of rainbows (the works of love)
Beams of colors unrivaled (passing along with the gently flowing rains)
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
E nānā nā maka i ke ao mālama/i ka lani malama
Mai Hawai'i akea i Kaua'i/hōʻike mai ana lā i ka nani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Look at the breaking dawn/in the bright heavens
From the vastness of Hawaiʻi to Kauaʻi/the beauty is revealed
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu
'O Kalākaua he inoa
O ka pua mae 'ole i ka lā
Ka pua maila i ka mauna
I ke kuahiwi 'o Mauna Kea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Kalākaua is his name
The flower that never fades in the sun
The flower blooms on the mountain
On the high hill of Mauna Kea
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu
Ke ‘ā maila i Kīlauea
Mālamalama i Wahinekapu
A ka luna o Uwēkahuna
I ka pali kapu o Kaʻauea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Glowing white on Kīlauea
Illuminating Wahinekapu
Atop the high Uwēkahuna
Is the sacred cliff of Kaʻauea
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ea mai ke aliʻi kia manu
Ua wehi i ka hulu o ka mamo
Ka pua nani aʻo Hawaiʻi
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Bring forth the king of birdcatchers
To adorn him in the feathers of the mamo
The beautiful flower of Hawaiʻi
Kalākaua is his name
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Mahalo nui iā, ke ali'i wahine/ke Kuini o Hawaiʻi
'O Lili'ulani, oka Wohi ku/kū i ka moku i ke Kalaunu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Greatest praise to her majesty/the Queen Of Hawaii
Liliʻuokalani the Wohi ruler/ruler of the land and to the throne
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ea mai ke aliʻi kia manu
Ua wehi i ka hulu o ka mamo
Ka pua nani aʻo Hawaiʻi
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Bring forth the king of birdcatchers
To adorn him in the feathers of the mamo
The beautiful flower of Hawaiʻi
Kalākaua is his name
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Mahalo nui iā, ke ali'i wahine/ke Kuini o Hawaiʻi
'O Lili'ulani, oka Wohi ku/kū i ka moku i ke Kalaunu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Greatest praise to her majesty/the Queen Of Hawaii
Liliʻuokalani the Wohi ruler/ruler of the land and to the throne
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ka pipio mai o ke ānuenue (nā hana a ke aloha)
Nā waiho'olu'u a hālikeole'e (māʻalo ana i ka ua lana mālie)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The great arches of rainbows (the works of love)
Beams of colors unrivaled (passing along with the gently flowing rains)
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
E nānā nā maka i ke ao mālama/i ka lani malama
Mai Hawai'i akea i Kaua'i/hōʻike mai ana lā i ka nani
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Look at the breaking dawn/in the bright heavens
From the vastness of Hawaiʻi to Kauaʻi/the beauty is revealed
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ea mai ke aliʻi kia manu
Ua wehi i ka hulu o ka mamo
Ka pua nani aʻo Hawaiʻi
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Bring forth the king of birdcatchers
To adorn him in the feathers of the mamo
The beautiful flower of Hawaiʻi
Kalākaua is his name
Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
ʻO Ka pua maeʻole i ka lā
Ka pua maila i ka mauna
I ke kuahiwi ʻo Mauna Kea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Kalākaua is his name
The flower that never fades in the sun
The flower blooms on the mountain
On the high hill of Mauna Kea
Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ke ‘ā maila i Kīlauea
Mālamalama i Wahinekapu
A ka luna o Uwēkahuna
I ka pali kapu o Kaʻauea
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Glowing white on Kīlauea
Illuminating Wahinekapu
Atop the high Uwēkahuna
Is the sacred cliff of Kaʻauea
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Mahalo nui iā, ke ali'i wahine/ke Kuini o Hawaiʻi
'O Lili'ulani, oka Wohi ku/kū i ka moku i ke Kalaunu
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Greatest praise to her majesty/the Queen Of Hawaii
Liliʻuokalani the Wohi ruler/ruler of the land and to the throne
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
Ea mai ke aliʻi kia manu
Ua wehi i ka hulu o ka mamo
Ka pua nani aʻo Hawaiʻi
ʻO Kalākaua he inoa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Bring forth the king of birdcatchers
To adorn him in the feathers of the mamo
The beautiful flower of Hawaiʻi
Kalākaua is his name
Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus
He Inoa No Kalani Kalākaua Kulele
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
A namesong for our chief, Kalākaua, cast forth