UNDERNEATH HAWAIIAN SKIES
(Words by Ernie Erdman / Music by Fred Rose, 1920)


Where the tropic breezes play, where the palm trees bend and sway, 
there a lonely maiden sighs, underneath Hawaiian skies. 
Every night beneath the moon, you can hear a lonesome croon, 
calling out across the bay, to her lover far away.

Moonbeams kiss the silvry sand, where they wandered, hand in hand, 
tears be-dim two soft brown eyes, underneath Hawaiian skies. 
Sweet Hawaiian melodies, bring to her fond memories, 
of a love that used to be, as she calls across the sea.

Come back to the shores of Honolulu, 
I'm so lonely here without you, underneath Hawaiian skies, 
tell me am I waiting all in vain, dear? 
say you're coming back again dear, to a land that's paradise. 
(Can't you hear me calling?) 
Come back where each tiny star that twinkles, 
and each steel guitar that tinkles breathes of love that never dies; 
sometime I just know you'll be returning, 
to a heart that's always yearning, underneath Hawaiian skies.