- I love a pretty Maui girl
- She lives at Waikapû
- With rosy cheeks and pearly teeth
- And lovely nut brown hair
- Her waist is oh so slender
- Her `ôpû too much nui, nui
- And of all the wahine I ever did aloha
- Sweet Maria beats them all
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- Hui:
- My love to you, ua hiki nô
- Your love with me, pê lâ nô
- Don't tell mama, kulikuil
- She'll tell papa luliluli
- Nui, nui pilikia with me now|
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- Her father keeps a taro patch ranch
- Next door to Bill Cornwell's sugar mill
- And being on a Sunday night
- To see them there I went
- As I was strolling through the cane field
- As on my way I roam
- It's there I met sweet Maria
As she drove the pua`a home
I took my Maria for a walk
- Among the bright green grass
- It's there I whisper words of love
- Unto this young country lass
- I placed my arm around her `ôpû
- And sat down by her side
- And asked her to be true
- And be my loving bride
And now we name the wedding day
- And how happy we should be
- No thought of pilikia shall enter
- The mind of her or me
- But in her farm house
- We'll both be happy night and day
- And our life shall pass like sunshine
- For we'll always be loving and gay
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