- White ginger blossoms
- Cool and fragrant
- Sweeter than the rose
- Fairer too than moonlight
- Cool and fragrant
- White ginger blossoms
- From the mountains
- Fill the thirsty air
- With exotic fragrance rare
- From the mountains
- Round your lovely throat you wear
My ginger lei- Each white petal nestles close and
Longs to say- "Let me stay here"
- Each white petal nestles close and
- White ginger blossoms
- Cool and fragrant
- By a mountain pool
- Guard their sweetness all for you
- Cool and fragrant
ʻawapuhi keʻokeʻo (white ginger) blossoms
Source: Anderson's Famous Songs of Hawaiʻi - This song was inspired by the Hollywood actress Mary Pickford who said to the composer, "I never heard a song for this flower". © Copyright 1939, 71 Alex Anderson Music Inc.