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I KA LA `APOPO (TOMORROW)

("Ukulele Lady" CD - 1995)

This song was the first place winner in the 1993 Friends of the Royal Hawaiian Band's ho`okuku mele for new Hawaiian lyric songs about the 1893 overthrow and sovereignty.

E ala e na Hawai`i, e ala e na pua    Rise up Hawaiians, rise up descendants
E koi mai `oukou i na mea e pono ai   Claim your rightful things

Ue na kanaka no ko lakou ali`i        The people cry for their queen
Ue lakou no ke kahuli `ana            They cry because of the overthrow
Ua hala lakou a me ka mo`i            They have passed on, also the monarch
Koe ka `aina nei wale no ho`i         Indeed, only the land remains

Ue ka `oiwi no kona mea nui           The native cries for his important thing
Ue `o ia no ka mea nalowale           He cries for the thing which was lost
Ue `o ia no na `eha o ka `aina        He cries for the hurts of the land
Koe na `eha o keia la                 The hurts of today remain

E ala e na Hawai`i, e ala e na pua    Rise up Hawaiians, rise up descendants
E koi mai `oukou i na mea e pono ai   Claim your rightful things

Hu mai ke aloha no keia `aina nei     Love for this land swells forth
Mai ke kahuli `ana a ke ea hou        From the overthrow until the new independence
E ku hou ana na keiki o ka `aina      The children of the land will rise up again
A kahea no ke ku`oko`a                And call out for freedom

Pono kakou e malama i ka `aina        We should care for the land
Pono kakou e kako`o i na pua          We should support the children
E `imi a loa`a ka ha`ina pono         Search and find the right solution
E ho`i ana ke ea i ka la `apopo       Sovereignty will return tomorrow

E ala e na Hawai`i, e ala e na pua    Rise up Hawaiians, rise up descendants
E koi mai `oukou i na mea e pono ai   Claim your rightful things

E ho`i ana ke ea i ka la `apopo       Sovereignty will return tomorrow
E ho`i ana ke ea i ka la `apopo.      Sovereignty will return tomorrow.

(Copyright 1993, Keith Haugen, ASCAP)

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e-mail: hakumele@aol.com.

Mahalo ia `oukou. E ho`omau kakou i ke ea.

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