He kani kapalili i ka pôuliuli
...o `ke mele aloha a Poloka
E konikoni ana ke ki'owai
...lepo me ka leo heahea i ka ipo
`O ka hoku `imo`imo o ka lani lipolipo
...ke kukui e hô`ike mai nei
He mana`olana kona i ka ho`oniponipo
...me ka ipo ho`ohenoheno ana


Ua `oli`oli `o ia a ka pâ `olu`olu
...o ke kilikilihune o ka ua
I ho`olalilali i ka `ili pu`upu`u
.. ma ke kua `oma`oma'o ona
He kakali wale kona i ka lohe`ia aku
...o kana mele o ke aumoe
A `ume`ume `ia kahi hoa kikiko`ele
...e ka leo mikololohua


Mai kinohi loa mai a i kêia po
...ua lohe mau `ia kana mele
Ma na ki`owai lepo o na `âina like
...`ole a hiki `auane`i i `ane`i
Ma waho iki aku o ka lumi moe o `u
...i ke kulukulu o ke aumoe
Ha`ina ka puana no ka maka pu`upu`u
...i pili hala 'ole ke aloha

A sound of wobble bobble in the glooming that's a looming
...it is the lovely crooning of the Bufo
A throbbing and a bobbing in the muddle of the puddle
...with a voice of invitation to the ipo
The winking and the blinking of a star up afar,
...is the light by which one might be seeing.
He's a foggin' in his noggin to be squeezin'
...and a teasin' with the one true love of his dreamin'.


He's a happy, snappy fellow in the touch
oh so mellow, of the wisty misty falling of the showers
Thar bring a slime shine to the lumpy,
...bumpy kind of the dark green skin on his shoulders
He'll just wait for a date til his song of the late
...night hour find the ear of his beloved
And brought for his selection is a mate of sweet perfection
...who is drawn by the eloquence bestowed


From the very start of time to the evening of this rhyme
...his crooning always found a willing ear
In the muddy bogs and strand of so many different lands
...eventually arriving even here
Just there, close ouside of this room where I reside
...wide awake in the deepening of midnight
So let the tale be told of the lumpy, bumpy taod
...that has never failed to win his lovely birthright.