Meleana Ē - by Francis Samuel Ka`a`a
Click Title to Access Melody Meleana ē, Meleana hoʻi Meleana ka wahine lomilomi ia Meleana ē, Meleana hoʻi ʻO ʻoe ka i pono o kāua Meleana ē, Meleana hoʻi ʻO ka ipu kukui mālamalama Meleana ē, Meleana hoʻi ʻO ka lepo ʻulaʻula o Kapahulu Meleana ē, Meleana hoʻi ʻO ka otomobile aʻe aukūaukū ʻana Meleana ē, Meleana hoʻi E ala mai ʻoe moe loa nei Haʻina ʻia mai ana ka puana Meleana ka wahine lomilomi ia	Heed me Maryann, Maryann come Woman, come and massage me Listen Maryann, Maryann come You are so right for me   Pay attention Maryann, Maryann come You are my light   Heed me Maryann, Maryann come The red dirt of Kapahulu Listen Maryann, Maryann come The automobile sways back and forth Hey Maryann, Maryann come Come and sleep here tonight Tell the refrain Maryann, the woman who massages
Source: Jon Omi Keoni who acquired this information from Maryann's half sister, Francis Kaʻaʻa Naʻehu, an employee of the Federal Post Office in Honolulu. - This song was written for the composer's daughter, Maryann Kaʻaʻa Dias, the mother of the former Farrington High School football coach Skippa Dias. Maryann or Meleana used to massage her father's shoulders when she was a young girl. Lomi lomi iʻa means to massage the fish. She was of Hawaiian-Scandinavian extraction and lived at the turn of the century. Captain Christian L’Orange was sent to Norway by the Hawaiian government and the Sugar Planters to recruit workers for the sugar fields and mills. In 1880, the Norwegian ship Bega left the port of Drammen, Norway, with 400 contract workers, mostly Norwegians with some Swedes and Danes. The first of the workers arrived February 18, 1881, and anchored off Maui, after a brutal 6-month voyage. The 2nd ship, Musca, left Norway in May, with 230 immigrants contracted for sugar plantations on Maui and the Big Island. Culture and climate shock, harsh living and working conditions and controversy caused much discontent. When word reached Norway, Hawaiʻi was not able to enlist more workers from Scandinavia and started to import labor from Asia. Only about 100 of the original 630 workers remained in Hawaiʻi. Bautastein was erected on Māʻalaea, Maui, near the McGregor Point lighthouse, to commerorate the arrival of the 630 Scandinavian© contract workers. Bautastein is a Viking tradition where a stone marker is placed at the spot of first landing in a foreign land. Translated by Kanani Mana © 1963 Miller Music Corp Music clip by Me Ke Aloha Serenaders