I first heard this song from Jojo Tavares who wrote this along with Doreen Baptiste.
Words of Shakahashi
My friend live Haili hill,
I live Wainaku Mill,
My friend get more than me,
but I no Pilikia.
My friend take Vegas flight,
I stay home chicken fight,
My friend win more than me,
but I no Pilikia.
We went his girlfriend's house,
she had a brand new blouse,
They go da kine shopping spree,
But I no Pilikia.
His brand new truck arrived,
air conditioned, four wheel drive,
fm, tape, and cd,
ah, i no pilikia.
My friend and I we go
Everytime Holoholo (vacation)
We go down to Honolii
But my friend, he dig out on me (disappear).
We met this pretty chick,
I guess she loved his stick shift,
What, standard trans more appealing o'hea??.
Ah, I no pilikia.
Saw my friend the other day,
I looked at him, but he looked away,
He think he mo betta than me,
Ah, I no pilikia.
Ha ina ia mai,
My friend's girl she now hapai (pregnant)
With one more mouth to feed,
That's the kind of pilikia I do not need.
I say, that's the kind of pilikia I do not need.
3. Lonely Sands
I wrote this under a coconut tree in Waikiki when I was 19 years old. It never occured to me that this song would harmonize well with the song "Waikiki".
Lonely Sands, Lonely Sands,
By the Sea, Telling me,
Life is so empty without you.
All these years on the shore
Waiting here for you dear
When will you ever come home?
And if you only knew
Noone could care for you more
And I can't feel the warmth
Of this shore.
Take my hands, Lonely Sands
Stay with me, pray with me
When will she ever come home?
4. Just Like A Wahine By Bob Dylan
Words of Shakahashi
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain,
Everybody knows that baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
(chorus) She fakes just like a Wahine, yes she does
And then she makes love Just Like a Wahine, yes she does
And then she aches Just Like a Wahine,
But she breaks just like a little girl.
Gwendolyn, she's my friend,
Yes I believe I will go see her again,
Nobody has to guess that baby can't be blessed,
Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest,
With her rings, Hawaiian bracelets and her pearls.
(chorus) She fakes just Like a Wahine, yes she does
And then she makes love Just Like a Wahine, yes she does
And then she aches Just Like a Wahine,
But she breaks just like a little girl.
It was raining from the first and I was dying there of thirst
so I came in here.
And your long time curse hurts, but what's worse
is this pain in here, i can't stand here, ain't it clear?!
That I just can't sit
Yes I believe it is time for us to quit.
When we meet again and are introduced as friends,
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world,
(chorus) Ah, you fake just like a Wahine, yes you do
And then you make love Just Like a Wahine, yes you do
And then you ache Just Like a Wahine,
but you break just like a little girl.
5. No Make Highway By Me Dr. Shakahashi
The melody to this song came to me while driving up the Pali in 1973. My late wife Eleanor co-wrote the lyrics.
No Make Highway by Me, No Make Highway by Me,
Make parking lots, make big airports,
but No Make Highway by Me.
I built my house by the sea, I planted one coconut tree,
I put up a sign, I say this is mine,
so No Make Highway By Me.
No Make Highway by Me, No Make Highway by Me,
Make traffic signs, choking telephone lines,
But No Make Highway by Me.
But then it happened one day, a man in a helmet he say:
This two lane road no can handle the load
So they gotta Make Highway By Me.
They gotta make highway by me, and they going to call it H-Free,
He say "its a shame", "but you see, no can blame"
They gotta make highway by me.
So now every morning at six, the men they come with their picks,
They dig up the road that no can handle the load,
They making this highway by me.
They chop down my coconut tree, and I mad as mad as can be,
I call life of the land tell them come make a stand,
Cause they're making this highway by me.
No Make Highway By Me, No Make Highway By Me,
Make concrete walls, make monster malls,
But No Make Highway By Me.
And now the smoke makes me choke, and you know that ain't no joke,
And the gasoline stinks and I just cannot think,
How they made that highway by me.
But then it happened one day, a hotel owner he say,
For your small piece of land we pay you 800 grand,
Oh, I'm glad they make highway by me!
I sold my house by the sea, and I move to Hanalei,
And though you never think twice when they pay da kine price,
No! No! No make highway by me.
No Make Highway by Me, No Make Highway by Me,
Make big hotels, make geothermal wells,
But No Make Highway By Me.
No Make Highway by Me, I say No Make Highway by Me,
Make Wilson tunnels, make 10 McDonald's,
But No Make Highway By Me.
Make shopping centers, ten plex theatres,
But No Make Highway By Me.
Make Taco Bells, make puka shells
But No Make Highway By Me.
Make MTV, Make Waikiki,
But No Make Highway By Me.
Make traffic signs, choking telephone lines
But No Make Highway by Me.
Make Los Angeles fog, make coqui tree frogs,
But No Make Highway by Me.
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7. Hey, Ukulele Lady By Bob Dylan
(Mr. Tamborine Man)
Hey, ukulele Lady play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey, ukulele Lady play a song for me.
In the chalangalanga morning I come following you.
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.
My senses have been stripped,
My toes too numb to step,
Wait only for my bootheels to be wandering.
I'm ready to go anywhere I'm ready fore to fade,
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it.
Hey, Ukulele Lady play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey, Ukulele Lady play a song for me.
In the chalangalanga morning I come following you.
Though you might hear laughing spinning,
swinging madly across the sun,
Its not aimed at anyone, its just escaping on the run,
And but for the skies there are no fences facing.
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme,
To your reggae beat in time, Its just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay him any mind
Its just a shadow that you're seeing that he's chasing.
Hey Ukulele Lady play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey, Ukulele Lady play a song for me.
In the chalangalanga morning I come following you.
And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of your mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far past the twisted reach of crazy sorrows.
Yes, the dance beneath Hawaiian skies with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate, driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Hey Ukulele Lady play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey, Ukulele Lady play a song for me,
In the chalangalanga morning I come following you.
8. Funny Mood Song by Dr. Shakahashi
I was born in a valley on a Funny Mood day.
In a funny mood building, such a funny mood way.
In a funny mood pastime, I grew up as a boy.
And I cherish my pleasures and my funny mood joys.
I've been rambling so long now like a funny mood stray,
And my friends don't understand me
And my funny mood ways.
In my funny mood sorrow I've been thinking so long,
"bout my down to earth lover and her funny mood song.
I've been thinking it over with my ol' blue jeans on,
'bout her funny mood absence and her funny mood song.
I've been rambling so long now like a funny mood stray,
And my friends don't understand me
And my funny mood ways.
In my funny mood sorrow I've been thinking so long,
'bout my kolohe lover and her funny mood song.
I've been thinking it over with my ol' blue jeans on,
'bout her funny mood absence and her funny mood song.
9. Go For Broke Dr. Shakahashi, Harry Hamada
Words by Dr. Shakahashi Red Words & Music by Harry Hamada
Blue Words Traditional Black Words & Music by Dr. Shakahashi
c f
Let us go for broke were the first words they spoke,
G G7 C F
Imua Lanakila! Let us fight! Fight! Fight! God will protect the right,
G C F C F
Nothing to fear, we're going to win this fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.
C F
When to right a wrong, they would fight hard and long
G G7 C
Far from their island homeland, they would laugh or cry,
F G
Whether they lived or died, they gave it all they got
C C7
They Go For Broke!
F C
They were young and strong as they marched along,
d7 g g7
So far from home, they sing this song,
C C7 F
We are proud to bear the colors of our freedom loving brothers,
D7 G G7
Blood and tears won't be shed in vain.
C C7 F
Until peace is won, there's so much to be done,
G G7 C C7
Shoot the works, boys..and let us Go For Broke!
F C
From Hawaii Nei, there was time to pray,
D7 G
One for the boys so far away,
C C7 F
We are proud to bear the colors of our freedom loving brothers,
D7 G G7
Blood and tears won't be shed in vain.
C C7 F
Until peace is won, there's so much to be done,
Dm G C F C
Let's shoot the works boys, and lets all Go For Broke!
C F C
442nd Infantry, we're the boys from Hawaii Nei.
F C
We'll fight for you and the red, white, and blue,
D7 G G7
We'll go to the front, and back to Honolulu-lulu
C
Fighting for dear ol' Uncle Sam,
C7 F C
Go for Broke! We don't give a damn,
G C Am
There's no time for fright when you fight for the right,
Dm G7 C C7
We'll geev 'um all we can.
F C D7 G G7
For everyday, we will hurray, one banzai for those gone away,
C C7 F
They were proud to bear the colors of their freedom loving brothers,
D7 G G7
Blood and tears were not shed in vain.
C F
And as peace was won, we thank you for all you've done,
Dm G G7 C F
You shot their lights out boys, Go For Broke!
C F C
Go For Broke! Go For Broke!
6. Regular Guy by Dr. Shakahashi
I remember when I was higher then
The way I used to be.
And it seemed that I could rise above
All the things that troubled me.
But when you walked into my life
I just fell right from that sky.
Cause baby,
I was just too much of a Regular Guy.
And I guess that I was just content
Never wasting all my time.
And I never needed someone else
Cause I looked to myself to find.
But you held my hand and it felt so grand
To find a new way to fly.
Cause baby,
I was just too much of a Regular Guy
Now its kind of hard to figure out
To see just what went wrong.
And I guess that I misled you
Into thinking that I was strong.
For you were looking for what seemed
A superman to fly.
And baby,
I was just too much of a Regular Guy
Yes its kinda hard to figure out
To see just what went wrong.
And I guess that I misled you
Into thinking that I was strong.
For you were looking for what seemed
A superman to fly,
And baby,
I was just too much of a Regular Guy.
10. My Back Pages By Bob Dylan
Words of Shakahashi
Crimson flames as bullets rain, bursting high and mighty traps,
Pounced with fire on flaming roads, using ideas as my maps.
We'll meet at battle';s end, said I, proud neath heated brow,
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Half-wrecked prejudice leaped forth, rip down all hate I screamed,
Lies: That life was "Japan-tied"!, spoke from my skull I dreamed,
Romantic facts of musketeers, foundationed deep somehow,
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
A patriot lieutenant's tongue, too serious to fool,
Spouted out that liberty was just equality in school,
Equality! I spoke the word as if a wedding vow,
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Friend's faces formed the forward path, no hero's face to see.
In dark and cold, bold men of war of island history,
Gunned down by corpse evangelist, unthought of, lost, or pau,
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
In a soldier's stance I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who leach,
Fearing I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach,
My pathway led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow,
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Yes, my guards stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect,
Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect,
Good and bad I define these words quite clear, no doubt, somehow,
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
11. Blowin' In The Wind By Bob Dylan
Words of Shakahashi
How many waves must a man ride on before you can call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she can sleep in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly before they are forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many times must a man look up before he can see paradise?
How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows
that too many people have died?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many years can an island exist before it is washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times must times must a man turn is head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind.
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind.
