Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
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Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
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[Spoken]
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I feel free now, you know? I was just confined like, you know?
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My Mom was born on Niihau. My Dad was born here.
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My Dad, he was a...he worked for the Navy. Down at PWCA,
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Public Works. Down Pearl Harbor.
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Oh my mother was tight ah...was tight. My Poppa was tight.
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My Poppa died when he--when I was 10 I think.
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...Was 10 years old. But every once in a while, he come
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back you know. ...I trip! Just like couple of weeks ago,
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I was sleeping my place, and then my mother and auntie Nina came...
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How would they feel?
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Would their smiles be content rather then cry?
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Cry for the gods,
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cry for the people,
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cry for the land that was taken away,
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and then yet you'll find Hawai'i.
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He loved music brah.
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He had a massive heart attack.
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The way that--just depression brah. He was real depressed.
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I was on the same course he was going.
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And he knew that too. And that's why he came back
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and tell me that "eh"--'cuase he DID come back and told me that
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"Eh, 'cause, you know, no be scared. There's people here for
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help you brah". It's kinda like telling me, if he
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had them...he would still be here. I still believe if he had called me,
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he'd be alive.
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...'Cause he died of a broken heart brah.
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How would he feel?
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Would his smiles be content rather then cry?
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Cry for the gods,
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cry for the people,
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cry for the land that was taken away,
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and then yet you'll find Hawai'i.
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Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
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Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
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Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
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Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
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[FADE]
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Hawai'i '78 Introduction
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| Israel Kamakawiwo'ole |
