HAWAIIAN BUTTERFLY
(Words by Geo. A. Little / Music by Billy Baskette, Joseph Santly, - 1917)


Somewhere in Hawaii, I'm sending a wire 
To someone waiting there for me, 
Among the flowers 
She counts the hours, 
She simply carried my heart away, 
And I say in dreams every day:

She answered the wire I sent to Hawaii 
With simple words, like, "I love you," 
And since she told me, I can see plainly, 
Soon I'll be telling you all goodbye, 
I must go, for I love her so:

Beautiful Hulu, 
Down in dreamy Honolulu, I am feeling so peculiar,
Since I first met you. 
In a moonlit garden fair, Cupid, he is warden there, 
Just like the flowers you're true, 
Waiting and dreaming in a garden of roses; 
Sometime in the bright Hawaian sunshine,
Dear, I'm going to make you all mine, 
And that is just why,
Songbirds sing in tune to these words, 
When I come back some day,
we'll fly away, Hawaian Butterfly.