Aloha E Komo Mai! My name is Mr. Nicolas and I am the Music Specialist. The student will be working on two songs from two different cultures: Mexico and Hawai'i. Click on the link to view the slides.

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Mele by Edith Kanakaole

Here is the full version of the Hula we are learning in class. Feel free to look at each verse step by step below!

"Such a delight to see

The great big ocean

So familiar and very cherished

With its fragrance of the līpoa"

"It is līpoa which washed ashore

Onto the shiny white sand

Hot from the heating sun as you step on it

Don't think that this is fun"

"How enticing is the display of limu kohu

Atop the rocks

Enticing one to pick them

As they sway to and fro"

"Let the story be told

Of the līpoa and the limu kohu

Close companions of the pāheʻe

Intermingled with the līpalu"

"Returning

For the ancestral land

For the people"