I want to be with all the kanis and wahinis
I can hear old guitars a -playin'
on the beach at Hopanaunau.
I can hear the Hawaiians say,
Komo mai no ka hua i ka halewele ka hau
It won't be long till my ship
will be sailing back to Kona
A grand old place that's always
I'm just a little Hawaiian
and a homesick island boy
I wanna go back to my fish and poi
I want to go back to my little grass shack
Where the humuhumunukunukuapua
Where the humuhumunukunukuapua goes a -swimming
It won't be long till my ship
will be sailing back to Kona
A grand old place that's always fair to see
So very dear to me, homesick as I can be
I'm just a little Hawaiian
and a homesick island boy
I want to go back to my fish and poi
I want to go back to my little grass shack
Where the humuhumunukunukuapua
where the humuhumunukunukuapua
where the humuhumunukunukuapua