"Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua" 🌺 Beautiful Hawaiian Music & Poetry Episode 001 (w English translation) by Charles E King

Performed by my Grandfather ~ Gabby Pahinui, King of Slack Key, Steel Guitar & Leader of the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance - The descendant of the Last War Chief of Maui, Kahahawai

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua · Gabby Pahinui The King Of Slack Key - The Best of Gabby Pahinui, Vol. 1 ℗ 1996 Hula Records Released on: 2008-01-01

Pauoa Valley is in Honolulu, Hawaii in the Nu’uanu Valley, and Pauoa Bay is on Big Island.

My Grandfather Gabby was born in Hilo (Big Island) and grew up in Kaka’ako (O’ahu).

The mele (song) composed by Charles Edward King (January 29, 1874 – February 27, 1950) is “Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua”.

Charles E King was mixed, of Hawaiian ancestry. He graduated from Kamehameha schools a few years before the 3rd and last Overthrow. He was a musical prodigy of Queen Lydia Lili’uokalani. His list of musical compositions is impressive.

From Wikipedia:

Teaching and legislative career Charles E. King (standing second from right) with the first graduating class of the Kamehameha School for Boys, 1891 Charles E. King was born of part Hawaiian ancestry, at the Nuʻuanu Valley estate of Queen Emma of Hawaii, in Honolulu, to Walter and Mary Ann Brash. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._King

Pauoa Liko Lehua (Pauoa, Home of the Lehua) - Words & music by Charles E. King

https://www.huapala.org/Pa/Pauoa-Liko_Lehua.html

E ka uʻi mae ʻole
O ka uka ʻiuʻiu
E maliu mai ʻoe
A ʻo wau kou hoa
A e kohukohu ai
Maʻaneʻi mai kāua
A i ʻolu hoʻi au

Hoʻohihi au e ʻike
I ka nani ʻoia pua
A he pua mae ʻole
A he wehi no ka uka
ʻO Pauoa liko lehua
A ʻo kou hoapili
O lei pua rose nani

Aia i laila
Ke koʻiʻi koi a loko
Mao ʻole ka ʻiʻini
I ʻanoʻi au e ʻike
I ke kumu o ke ʻala
A he ʻala onaona
I ka maka o ka ʻōpua

E hōʻike ka puana
No ka lau liko lehua
O ka uka o Pauoa
I lei kāhiko noʻu
No ka ua Kūkalahale
A he lei ua pūia
I ke ʻala me ke aloha

O fadeless beauty
Of the distant uplands
Pay attention to me
Let me be your companion
A suitable one for you
Come here to me
And make me glad

I long to see
The beauty of that blossom
The never fading blossom
That adorns the upland
The beautiful lehua bud
The close companion
Of the rose lei

It is there
That the heart longs to be
There the desire that never ends
I long to see
The source of the fragrance
The sweet fragrance
Before the face of the clouds

This ends my praise for
The leaf-bud of the lehua
Of the vale of Pauoa
To be worn by me
In the Kûkalahale rain
A rain imbued with fragrance
And with love

Charles E. King, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1916.jpg