When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop
There's not a bit of use for a traffic cop For everything and everybody comes to a stop
When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop
The sugar raises cane the palms trees sigh
- The ukuleles fret and the birds won't fly
- The Humuhumunukunukus stop swimming by
- When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop
Hui:
That wahine has an opu
With a college education
There's no motion she don't go thru
She doesn't leave a thing to your imagination
Hattie does a dance
no law would allow
A crater got a look and it's
sizzling now
She'd better watch her step or everything will be pau
When Hilo Hattie
does the Hilo Hop
Hui:
They took Hattie to the hoosegow
Hattie went along quite gaily
She said "Oh judge, turn me loose now,
I'll do my dance while you play
your ukulele."
Hattie should've died from too much gin
But she will never pay for her
life of sin.
St. Peter's gonna take a look and say "come on in"
When Hilo Hattie does
the Hilo Hop When Hilo Hattie does the Hilo Hop
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Clara Haili Nelson
Hilo
Hattie
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Source: Derek Lamar, Hawaiian Music and Musicians by George Kanahele, Noble's Hawaiian Favorites,
Copyright 1936, 64 Miller Music Corp. - Don McDiarmid, Sr.
was part of the Harry Owens band at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel
in 1935, when he wrote this song. Judged a clever tune about
a sexy siren, it was not 'high class' enough to be performed
at the hotel. McDiarmid set it aside and about a year later,
Clara Inter, a school teacher and member of Louise Akeo's
Royal Hawaiian Girls' Glee Club found the song and performed
it on a trip to Canada with the glee club. In the summer of
1937, while leading his own band in the Monarch Room of the
Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Clara Inter insisted on performing
this song that catapulted the composer and dancer to fame.
Clara was so closely indentified with the song, she adopted
the title as her legal name
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