My Little Grass Shack - Hawaiian Dance

This song was written in 1933 by Tommy Harrison, Bill Cogswell, and Johnny Noble in Hawaii, this was a hit song in the Hawaiian musical style known as hapa haole. With lyrics in both English and Hawaiian, hapa haole means "half foreign" and used in a literal sense to mean "multi-racial". "My Little Grass Shack" brings back Hawaii’s enduring appeal to tourists. Who doesn’t want to head to Hawaii, spend a few days in a grass shack, and hang out with kane and wahine friends on the beach at Ho’onaunau? This song also references the state fish of Hawaii, the humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa also known as the reef triggerfish. You will love dancing this happy and fascinating hapa haole hula. It’s so much fun!

My Little Grass Shack (In Kealakekua, Hawaii)

I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii
I want to be with all the kanes and wahines that I knew long ago
I can hear old guitars a playing, on the beach at Ho’onaunau
I can hear the Hawaiians saying " Komo mai nokaua ika hale wela ka'ao"
It won't be long 'til my ship will be sailing back to Kona
A grand old place that's always fair to see
I'm just a little Hawaiian and a homeside Island boy
I want to go back to my fish and poi
I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii
Where the Humuhumu nukunuku a pua'a goes swimming by
Where the Humuhumu nukunuku a pua'a goes swimming by.