Amy Hānaiali‘i - Mauna Kea Ku'u Iwi Hilo (Official Video)

Enjoy this song from Amy Hānaiali‘i's newly released album, Kalawai‘anui!

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Mauna Kea Kuʻu Iwi Hilo
Lyrics: Micah Kamohoaliʻi
Music: Amy Hānaiali`i Gilliom
Written in March 2019

Kūkahauʻula, the highest peak in the world, where the first rays of the sun touch the landscape. Hear my call Mauna a Wākea, the first-born child of Wākea and Papa. You are my very being, my core, my everything. Awaken mountains in the storm, cherished elders of esteemed heights. Revered ancestral mountains of Hawaiʻi, secure the foundations of the island and our lives.

Hawaiian Lyrics:
ʻO Mauna Kea kau mai i luna
Ke kualono kū haʻo i ka mālie
Kuahiwi kū kilakila
Wehea i ka lani
I ka piko o ka ʻāina

ʻO Poliʻahu i ka hanohano
Ka wahine ahu i ke kapa hau
Me ka lei ʻohuʻohu
Hone ana i ke anu
I ka makani o Līhau

Hui:
E ō e Mauna Ke
ʻO oe nō kuʻu iwi hilo
Ka wena o ka lā
I Kūkahauʻula i kuʻu ēwe, kuʻu ēwe

Nā mauna hoʻoheno o Hawaiʻi
Ka waiho kāhelahela o ka moku
Ku kiaʻi i ka ʻino
E hoʻomalu mai
Paʻa ka moku i ka laʻi

English Lyrics:
There Mauna Kea placed high above
The mountain standing alone in the calm
Indeed a majestic mountain
That opens up to the heavens
It is the very core of the land

Poliʻahu the magnificent
The woman dressed in a white mantle
Adorned with a lei of fog
Gracing sweetly the cold
and the Līhau breeze

Chorus:
Answer my call Mauna Kea
You are my very being
And the rays of sun
That glow on Kūkahauʻula,
This is my soul, my kin, my everything!

My cherished mountains of Hawaiʻi
In the great expanse over the island
Stand guard in the storm
Protect us from harm
Secure the island in peace

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Video by: Dustin Acdal, Sam Potter and Nainoa Langer
Lyrics: Kumu Micah Kamohoaliʻi
Music composed by: Amy Hānaialiʻi
Hula: Hālau Nā Kīpuʻupuʻu
Horseback riders: Wardell Young and Keke Kaniho
Dress: Dezigns by Kamohoaliʻi
Horses provided by: Claren Kealoha-Beaudet and Iwalani Kaaua
Editing by: Aaron Bode and Dylan Bode
Big mahalo to The Parker Ranch!