Hawai'i '78 Introduction - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i

(Spoken)

I feel free now, you know?

I was just confined like, you know?

My Mom was born on Ni`ihau.

My Dad was born here

My Dad, he was a… he worked for the Navy.

Down at PWCA

Public Works.

Down Pearl Harbor

Oh my mother was tight ah… was tight.

My Poppa was tight ah

My Poppa died when he--when I was 10 I think

…I was 10 years old.

But every once in a while, he come

Back you know.

…I trip… Just like couple of weeks ago

I was sleeping my place, and then my mother and auntie Nina came…

How would they feel?

Would their smiles be content rather then cry?

Cry for the gods

Cry for the people

Cry for the land that was taken away

And then yet you’ll find Hawai`i

(Spoken)

He loved music brah

He had a massive heart attack

The way that--just depression brah.

He was real depressed

I was on the same course he was going

And he knew that too.

And that’s why he came back

And tell me that «eh"--'cause he DID come back and told me that

«Eh, 'cause, you know, no be scared.

There’s people here for

Help you brah».

It’s kinda like telling me, if he

Had them… he would still be here.

I still believe if he had called me

He’d be alive

…'Cause he died of a broken heart brah

How would he feel?

Would his smiles be content rather then cry?

Cry for the gods

Cry for the people

Cry for the land that was taken away

And then yet you’ll find Hawai’i

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono O Hawai`i