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Aloha 'Oe

(Queen Liliuokalani, Arrangement by Elvis)


Copyright Elvis Presley Music

Original by Quartette of Hawaiian Girls from Kawaiho Seminary in 1904

As sung by Elvis in the 1961 movie "Blue Hawaii"


Soundtrack recording for Paramount - Blue Hawaii - March 21-23, 1961 - Radio Recorders - Hollywood

 March 21 - 1-11:50 pm

Studio matrix: B0-sp - RCA matrix: M2PB 2986-sp - Section 2 Outtakes:
Take 1: July 1, 2003 CD RCA BMG 82876 50537-2 Elvis Close Up
Takes 3, 4 5, 7 and Master spliced from take 4, section 1 and takes 7 and 5, section 2: April, 2012 CD Book MRS 30021361 Blue Hawaii The Expanded Alternate Album
Take 6: February 26, 2009 CD FTD 88697 29733-2 CD Blue Hawaii


March 23 - 1-5:22 pm

Studio matrix: B0-sp - RCA matrix: M2PB 2986-04 - The Surfers - Section 1
Studio matrix: B0-sp - RCA matrix: M2PB 2986-sp Aloha Oe (Composite spliced from take 4, section 1 and takes 7 and 5, section 2)
October 1961 LP RCA LSP 2426 Blue Hawaii




"This most famous of all Hawaiian songs was for decades sung for every
departing and arriving steamer. A rather ambiguous statement in "Hawaii's Story
By Hawaii's Queen".. suggests that the song was composed while the Queen
(Liliuokalani) was imprisoned in `Iolani Palace, but on a copy of the song
in her own handwriting in the State Archives, are the place and date:
Maunawili, 1877..."


Aloha `Oe

Ha `aheo `e ka ua i na pali
Ke nihi a `ela i ka nahele
E uhai ana paha i ka liko
Pua `ahiahi lehua o uka


(Proudly the rain on the cliffs
Creeps into the forest
Seeking the buds
And miniature lehua flowers of the uplands)


Hui:
Aloha `oe, aloha `oe
E ke onaona noho i ka lipo
One fond embrace, a ho `i a `e au
A hui hou aku


Chorus:
(Farewell to you, farewell to you
O fragrance in the blue depths
One fond embrace and I leave
To meet again)


`O ka hali `a aloha ka i hiki mai
Ke hone a `e nei i ku `u manawa
`O `oe no ka `u ipo aloha
A loko e hana nei


(Sweet memories come
Sound softly in my heart
You are my beloved sweetheart
Felt within)


Maopopo ku `u `ike i ka nani
Na pua rose o Mauna-wili
I laila ho `ohie na manu
Miki `ala i ka mani o ia pua


(I understand the beauty
Of rose blossoms at Mauna-wili
There the birds delight
Alert the beauty of this flower