Mele Kalikimaka!
Ho, ho ho! Just like you, I like “Jingle Bells” “Silent Night,” “Frosty,” “Rudolph,” sung by Burl Ives, Elvis’ “Blue Christmas,” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
howver, I love
“Mele Kalikimaka!”
It is quite possibly the happiest-quirkiest-most unsung hero of the Christmas calvacade of songs.
Our family has six grass skirts stashed away – waiting for any opportunity to sing our very favorite Christmas carol.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bing Crosby got a bad rap- for all those bad raps – but, when the King of Croons stops to sing – we slip into our neon grass skirts- get ready for Hula Hands- and belt out the island greeting that we send to you…
Aloha and Mahalo
Mele Kalikimaka is the word to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas day
That’s the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii’s way
To say Merry Christmas to you
Mele Kalikimaka is the word to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas day
That’s the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii’s way
To say Merry Christmas to you
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii’s way
To say Merry Christmas to you
Mele Kalikimaka is the word to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas day
That’s the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii’s way
To say Merry Christmas
A very Merry Christmas
A very, very, Merry,Merry Christmas to you
Songwriters
R. ALEX ANDERSON
Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas Song) – YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEvGKUXW0iI