Ua Like Nô A Like (My Heart's Choice) - Words & music by Alice Everett

 

Ua like nô a like
Me ka ua kani lehua
Me he ala e `i mai ana
Aia i laila ke aloha 
 
Hui:
`O `oe nô ka`u i `upu ai
Ku`u lei hiki ahiahi
`O ke kani a nâ manu
I nâ hola o ke aumoe
 
Ma`anei mai kâua
He welina pa`a i ka poli
A nâu nô au e `imi a`e
A loa`a i ke aheahe a ka makani

He moani ka`u i honi
`Oiai eia i ka midnight
Me na kipona waianuhea
Ka ma`alo a`e i ku`u maka

It is like the rain
That produces the lehua blossom
It seems to be saying
"Love is there"
 
Chorus:
You are the one I'm thinking of
My beloved who comes in the evening
When the song of the birds are heard
And when night has fallen
  
That you and I are here together
With a love that binds us both
So let me go to seek you
Where the gentle breezes blow

I smell a wind borne perfume
Here at midnight
With other subtle odors
That pass before me

Source: King's Hawaiian Melodies Copyright 1916, 43 Charles E. King - First published in 1812, the composer was a contemporary of Queen Lili`uokalani Translated by Mary Pukui