Kūpaʻa Au I Ka ʻŌlelo
Haku ʻia e Cody Pueo Pata & Kaiolohia Funes Smith
Pūnana Leo o Hāna
Haʻaheo ʻo Hāna i ka Uakea
ʻOhuʻohu i ka lae ʻo Nānuʻalele,
Me ka wai aloha o Punahoa,
Me Kaihalulu leo heahea.
HUI:
He keiki au no ka ʻāina
O ka ua Lanihaʻahaʻa–
Hulō, hulō kākou!
Kūpaʻa au i ka ʻōlelo
A nā kūpuna–
Pūnana Leo o Hāna.
Hiʻi Kaʻuiki iā Mokuhano,
Hiʻi ke one iā Pueokahi,
Hiʻi Waikāloa iā Kahulili,
Hiʻi ka nalu iā Keʻanini.
Hāna stands proud in the Ua kea rain
Adorned by the headlands at Nānuʻalele,
and the beloved waters of Punahoa,
with Kaihalulu, of the beckoning seas.
Chorus:
I am a child of this land
of the Lanihaʻahaʻa rain-
Hooray, let us celebrate!
I stand firm in the ancestral
language of my kūpuna
at the Pūnana Leo o Hāna.
Kaʻuiki tends to Mokuhano,
while the sand uplifts Pueokahi,
Waikāloa provides for Kahulili,
Waves embrace Keʻanini as one.
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