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wcerto
Ahonui
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KäneKïHö`alu
Akahai
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 Posted - 03/14/2008 : 5:34:42 PM
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| Yes, Waipiʻo is known as the Valley of the Kings, and, as I've mentioned before, is my favorite place in all of Hawaiʻi. Also, on the song list, no can forget Hiʻilawe! |
E mālama pono a e hoʻomaha ma ka maluhia o ke Akua,
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 03/15/2008 : 04:35:27 AM
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Visit Waipi'o and you will understand- live there and you will see how powerful a place it really is!
Some people come to Waipi'o and can't wait to get out of there; others fall in love. No one is neutral about it- it is too powerful of a place. Interestingly, however, very few can stay- people come and go but the population of actual residents has stayed constant at about 65 for the past 30 years...
Chris
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keoladonaghy
Lokahi
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keoladonaghy
Lokahi
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Posted - 03/15/2008 : 3:30:09 PM
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| And don't forget Waipi‘o Paka‘alana, recorded by Alice Nāmakelua and the Beamer Brothers. |
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keoladonaghy
Lokahi
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Posted - 03/15/2008 : 3:34:52 PM
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| And thought it's not about Waipi‘o specifically, Dennis Kamakahi's "Kanaka Waiolina" is about Sam Li'a from Waipi‘o. Great mele. |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2008 : 5:21:26 PM
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| Oops, Keola. Good thing I am not a secretary any more. I wouldn't be able to make a living typing the way I do sometimes. I made a boo-boo when I typed it. E kala mai. Thank you for correcting me. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
546 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2008 : 6:39:48 PM
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Aloha Keola,
Heha Waipo`o?
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keoladonaghy
Lokahi
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Posted - 03/16/2008 : 12:27:30 AM
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| Mahalo, PM. My bad. Fixed. Good thing I've never been a secretary. I must have some genetic defect that will not allow me to correct someone else' spelling or grammatical mistake without introducing one of my own. |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2008 : 01:10:54 AM
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Now, Keola. Don't blame it on your Mama.
I like the kaona in Heha Waipi`o. Sam Li`a musta had a thing about gossips. Interesting that the last line is partially in English - "Hale`iwa beautiful home". Many times I have heard beautiful or beauty spoken in English in an otherwise all Hawaiian language song. Plenty of Hawaiian ways to say so. Even in Koke`e, Dennis sings of the beauty found there using the English word.
From www.huapala.org :
Heha Waipi`o (Drowsy Waipi`o) - by Sam Li`a Kalainaina, Sr.
Kaulana ku`u home puni Waipi`o
Me nâ pe`a nani o ka `âina
Kâkela he hale ali`i
Herode ko`u hoalike
Mô`î puni ha`akei
Kukuna o ka lâ ko`u kapa `ia
E `ôlino nei a puni ka honua
Aue a`i luna lilo
Lihi launa `ole mai
Nâ ali`i nui o ke ao
E o`u mau kini nâ makamaka
Me nâ kupa o ku`u `âina
Me ka wailele a`o Hi`ilawe
Ko`iawe maila `i luna
Ko`iawe mau i ka pali
`A`ole pêlâ ka `oia`i`o
Haku`epa loko`ino o ka makamaka
Ua like nô a like
Me nâ kini lehulehu
O ku`u one hânau
E ola mâua me a`u kini
Me a`u lei o nei `âina
Pulupê i ka hunakai
Ka i`a mili i ka lima
Heha Waipi`o i ka noe
Ha`ina `ia mai ana ka puana
No ka lei hapa pua Sêpânia
He kupa no ka `âina
E kipa mai ma loko
Hale`iwa beautiful home
Famous is my home, beloved Waipi`o
And the beautiful borders of the land
A castle, a royal house
I am like Herod
A haughty king
Rays of the sun are my garments
Sparkling on all the earth
Far above, so high, beyond reach
There are no limits
For the great lord of the day
My friends and neighbors
And natives of this land
Hi`ilawe, the waterfall
Showering from above
Showering always on the cliff
This is not the truth
Gossip started by a jealous crony
I am just the same
Like every one else
Of my birthplace
May the two of us and my friends
And my children live in this land
Drenched with sea spray
Where fish are caught in the hand
Waipi`o is drowsy in the mist
Tell the refrain
Of this half Spanish flower lei
A resident of the land
You are welcome to come to
Hale`iwa, my beautiful home
Source: This mele tells about the home of M. Smith in Waipi`o Valley called Haleiwa (frigate bird). Her hapa Spanish lover caused much gossip and compared her to the biblical King Herod. The title, Heha Waipi`o is an allusion to drunkeness or the physical drowsiness that follows love making.
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Me ke aloha
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
398 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2008 : 03:32:32 AM
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Frankly, gossip surpasses kalo farming as the chief pastime of Waipi'o. The whole valley knows about any missteps you have taken before you even realize it yourself!
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 03/16/2008 : 09:17:21 AM
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E kala mai, Keola, I have senior moments too, now more than I care to admit.
Spending a good part of my youth in Ka`a`awa, a small community on the windward coast of Oahu, which at that time had one general store, one barbershop, one fire house, one church and one school I understood how quickly news travels from one end of town to the other. The community was small enough then so that you knew just about everybody if not by name then, by the name of their sisters or brothers.
The buzz or gossip that goes around in a small town is just a natural occurrence within any small community. It may be good gossip or bad gossip, but it is an informal way in which the community views itself by digesting bits and pieces of information and then tries to make sense of the information. More often than not the conclusions are far from the mark, and sometimes hurtful. Sometimes it takes a song to make things better.
This is an excerpt from Hawaiian Son- a biography of Eddie Kamae. Eddie is the only artist that I have listened too consistently for the last fifty years. Eddie writes of Sam Li`a:
“Joe Perez was Sam’s schoolmate from Lahainaluna who also came back to Waipi`o where his father farmed taro. Joe was getting married so he fixed up his old family house, repainted it, brought in some new furniture. He did such a good job, his relatives got jealous, especially one brother-in-law. They accused Joe of having a house too fancy for the common man, and this hurt Joe’s feelings. He asked Sam to help him out by writing a song of welcome. So Sam did. He put a band together with three other fellows, and they played it outside Joe’s house at the wedding on Christmas Day. It praises Joe Perez and the beautiful valley they all shared. Some of the folks who were there could tell from the lyrics that they, too, were in the song. So it brought them all together, and the band had to play several encores.
Sam called it “Heha Waipi`o” (Drowsy Waipi`o). He gave the song to Joe as a wedding present. A few years later one of Joe’s sisters who lived in Honolulu showed it to Henry Berger, the famous bandmaster from Germany who had taught Queen Lili`uokalani, and Sam’s first song was performed by the Royal Hawaiian Band. Since then other bands have recorded it, the only song by Sam that ever got recorded in his lifetime.
He wrote “Heha Waipi`o” in 1904, when he was twenty-two….”
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wcerto
Ahonui
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Posted - 03/16/2008 : 10:11:17 AM
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| Peter, thank you for refreshing my memory about Eddie Kamae's book. What a swell story. It has been a couple of years since I read it. I'll need to dig it up and read it again. I read it originally when I did not understand much Hawaiian language, nor know much about the music. Well, not that I reallyknow much now, but at least it is more than previously. Learning something more every day. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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keoladonaghy
Lokahi
257 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2008 : 4:50:10 PM
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| Wanda, I have yet to find a fault in my mother - I blame Dad ;-) |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 1:10:44 PM
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Other Waipi'o songs I can think of:
Hi'ilawe - traditional
Ke Aloha No Waipi'o - Weldon Kekauoha
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He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
1055 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 5:19:20 PM
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Hmmm. The Freudian Dad thing. Hmmmm.
Paul |
"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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