Hukilau Song

Hawaii

This song comes from the islands of Hawaii .  People living in tropical island countries depend on fishing for their most important food source.  This fishing song composed by Jack Owens in 1948 after a visit to the islands uses Hawaiian words in a playful sense of rhythm and rhyme.

Lyrics:

Oh we're going to a hukilau 
A huki huki huki huki hukilau 
Everybody loves the hukilau
Where the laulau is the kaukau at the lû`au 

 We throw our nets out into the sea 
And all the `ama`ama come a-swimming to me 
Oh, we're going to a hukilau 
A huki huki huki hukilau 

What a beautiful day for fishing 
That old Hawaiian way 
Where the hukilau nets are swishing 
Down in old Lâ`ie bay  

                                                           Composed by Jack Owens

You can find a version of this song in 
MacMillan/McGraw-Hill's Share the Music 5th Grade.

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