XCV Aloha 'Oe 🎵
I don't know why that is, but I am fascinated by language. Especially those who aren't widely known and spoken. Maybe a side effect that my own native language is a strange dialect that no one outside really understands. This song is one of those I stumbled upon by accident. I knew the versions in English, but a few years ago I watched a documentary of an actress and there was a brief scene where she sang this song in Hawaiian and it just.. I loved it. And recently I found it on youtube, thanks internet 😘
Ha'aheo ka ua i nâ pali
Ke nihi a'ela i ka nahele
E hahai (uhai) ana paha i ka liko
Pua 'âhihi lehua o uka
Hui
Aloha 'oe, aloha 'oe
E ke onaona noho i ka lipo
One fond embrace,
A ho'i a'e au
Until we meet again
'O ka hali'a aloha i hiki mai
Ke hone a'e nei i
Ku'u manawa
'O 'oe nô ka'u ipo aloha
A loko e hana nei
Maopopo ku'u 'ike i ka nani
Nâ pua rose o Maunawili
I laila hia'ia nâ manu
Miki'ala i ka nani o ka lipo