LarryLaliPuanalonekiJones
11/08/2014
5:36 PM
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- `O`opu nui, tewetewe,
- Ta`a mai ana, tewetewe
- Pâ i ka lani, tewetewe,
Tôheoheo, tewetewe -
- Hui:
- Teketeke tewe tewe tewe
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- `O`opu nui, tewetewe,
- Pa`a i ka lima, tewetewe
- Ke `oni nei, tewetewe,
- Kûpaka nei, tewetewe
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- `O`opu nui, tewetewe,
- Te tomo nei, tewetewe
- I ta `upena, tewetewe,
- A kâua, tewetewe
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- `O`opu nui, tewetewe,
- E akahele `oe, tewetewe
- O hemo a`e nei, tewetewe,
- Pa`a `ole iâ tâua, tewetewe
| - Big fish, move back and forth
- Move to satisfy, move back and forth
- Touch the sky, move back and forth
- Tumble down, move back and forth
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- Chorus:
- Prepare, move back and forth
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- Big fish, move back and forth
- Caught in the hand, move back and forth
- Reaching here, move back and forth
- Twisting about, move back and forth
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- Big fish, move back and forth
- Enter, move back and forth
- Captured in the net, move back and forth
- That is ours, move back and forth
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- Big fish, move back and forth
- Take it easy, move back and forth
- Or you'll get loose, move back and forth
- Before we finish, move back and forth
| Source: R Bruce Denney - Based on an old chant, the `o`opu or goby fish (awaous stamineus), endemic to Hawai`i, was food for the ancient Hawaiians, and needs both salt and fresh water to survive. Many of the ancient chants used the o`opu as a metaphor for partners in sexual activity. Known also as the sweet water fish, it was used to indicate purity of water because it cannot live in polluted water and points up when feeding. The `o`opu hi`ukole or red-tail goby, is the rarest of the stream gobies. . Translated by Vicki II Rodrigues
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