Kuʻu Home o Kahaluʻu
Olomana Lyrics

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I remember days when we were wiser
When our world was small enough for dreams
And you have lingered there my sister
And I no longer can it seems
Last night I dreamt I was returning
And my heart called out to you
But I fear I won't be like I left you
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu

Change is a strange thing
It cannot be denied
It can help you find yourself
Or make you lose your pride
Move with it slowly
As on the road we go
Please do not hold on to me
We all must go alone

I remember days when we were smiling
When we laughed and sang the whole night long
And I will greet you as I find you
With the sharing of a brand new song
Last night I dreamt I was returning
And my heart called out to you

To please accept me as you'll find me
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu

Overall Meaning

In the song "Kuu Home O Kahaluu," Olomana reminisces about the days when they were younger and spent their time catching 'o'opu in the mountain stream and riding horses around the Ko'olau hills. The song speaks of the yearning to return home and reconnect with loved ones. The singer is filled with fear that things may not be the same, and the changes that have taken place may have altered the place and the people he once knew.

In the last verse of the song, the lyric "change is a strange thing" suggests that change cannot be ignored, and we must learn to adapt to it by moving with it slowly. The singer asks the listener not to hold on to him, for we all must go alone, and we must embrace change and move with the flow.

The song is an ode to the Hawaiian culture and tradition. It resonates with the idea that home is where the heart is, and even though things may change, the love and bond for one's hometown and loved ones can never be broken.

Line by Line Meaning

I remember days when we were younger
I remember the days of our youth

We used to catch 'o'opu in the mountain stream
We used to catch oopu in the stream of the mountain

'Round the Ko'olau hills we'd ride on horseback
We would ride horses around the Ko'olau hills

So long ago it seems it was a dream
It seems like a dream, so long ago

Last night I dreamt I was returning
Last night, I dreamed of returning

And my heart called out to you
My heart called out to you

But I fear you won't be like I left you
I fear that you won't be the same as when I left you

Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
With love, my home of Kahaluu

I remember days when we were wiser
I remember when we were wiser

When our world was small enough for dreams
When our world was small enough for dreams

And you have lingered there my sister
And you have stayed there, my sister

And I no longer can it seems
And it seems like I can no longer do the same

Change is a strange thing
Change is a strange thing

It cannot be denied
It cannot be denied

It can help you find yourself
It can help you find yourself

Or make you lose your pride
Or make you lose your pride

Move with it slowly
Move with it slowly

As on the road we go
As we go on the road

Please do not hold on to me
Please do not hold onto me

We all must go alone
We all must go alone

I remember days when we were smiling
I remember when we were smiling

When we laughed and sang the whole night long
When we laughed and sang the whole night long

And I will greet you as I find you
And I will greet you as I find you

With the sharing of a brand new song
With the sharing of a brand new song

To Please accept me as you'll find me
To please accept me for who I am

Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
With love, my home of Kahaluu

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@hawnboy

10y↑269

I remember days when we were younger
We used to catch 'o'opu in the mountain stream
'Round the Ko'olau hills we'd ride on horseback
So long ago it seems it was a dream
Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
But I fear you won't be like I left you
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu

I remember days when we were wiser
When our world was small enough for dreams
And you have lingered there my sister
And I no longer can it seems
Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
But I fear you won't be like I left you
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu

Change is a strange thing
it cannot be denied
It can help you find yourself
or make you lose your pride
Move with it slowly
as on the road we go
Please do not hold on to me
we all must go alone

I remember days when we were smiling
When we laughed and sang the whole night long
And I will greet you as I find you
With the sharing of a brand new song
Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
To please accept me as you'll find me
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu

All comments from YouTube:

@Angela-uo4ur

3y↑302

Born and raised in Hawaii. After I moved away to a place where it’s dog-eat-dog, rat race, every man/woman for themselves environment, I realize how precious, lucky, and thankful I am to be able to grow up in a beautiful place and simple life where friends, family, community and enjoying beaches, mountain streams and the beauty of the islands are what’s important. I keep the calm and laid back attitude in my heart with me and let others around me stress themselves out over trivial unimportant things. Anyone can go to Hawaii, but not everyone can say they are from Hawaii and know truly what the Aloha Spirit means and carry it in their heart.

@kimot8943

3y↑12

VERY WELL SAID!!!

@lojfiojo4725

2y↑11

I feel the same about the caribbean, theres a certain peace in living a simple life on a beautiful island, surrounded by your people and culture.

@lalljp

2y↑4

You should go back and live in Hawai'i

@Hokua888

2y↑2

Hallelujah, you !!!!

@kentclark6420

2y↑7

I lived in Hawaii back in the 70s, in Kahaluu, and it was peaceful and beautiful. But I also felt the justifiable anger towards my race and outsiders, there, as well. After my father was hit by a car and killed there, due to the unbearable traffic as a result of the heavy Oahu population, I felt that I should return to the mainland, as my presence was only contributing to the commercialism and pollution of the islands. And Honolulu has much of the same crime and problems of Mainland urban centers, thanks to the invasion of the outsiders since the 1600s.

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@jamilanijm

3y↑68

I could listen to this song on repeat for the rest of my life.

@mendyboio3917

33w

That's been my life!
No ka oi, Hawaii!

@JonahEwaliko

4y↑88

i listen to this song because I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming and I am a rare breed. I am half native american, and half Hawaiian my name is jonah and i have a message for you, yes you reading this commment, i am separated from my native land and treated as any other equal person. i miss hawaii and i plan to return to oahu waimanalo hawaii. (we all need one another, the gift of aloha comes from the heart.) simply put these lyrics speak volumes of what we desire.

@kawikavolkoff6697

3y↑2

Big Respect. Sending you and your Ohana my Aloha💯🙏🏽🤙🏽

@kawikavolkoff6697

3y↑2

I come from Kona, Hawai'i and my roots run deep in the Aina I call home. I worked in Yellowstone for 2 years and all I could feel was the deepest Mana in that Aina. Though it was Aina I was foreign too, I felt the Kupuna of those areas took me in as a brother of a similar culture and of a similar struggle. Aloha, Braddah 🙏🏽

@patriciayomes8800

3y↑1

You are a good person….you speak from your soul. Waimanalo waits for your return to the Hawaiian Islands. Further there are many families in Hawaii who are Native Americans. I believe some Native Americans is on Big Island. In the 1800’s, Ships mainly travelled from Europe passing through dangerous Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. my grandfathers oldest brotherJoe Soares(real name is Goulart Silva) a Merchant Mariner died Cape Horn. American ships travelled from the Northwest to Foreign Countries. My grandfather Christian Soares belongs to the Barrett Family whom quite a few were Merchant Mariners.
My Uncle Christopher (Sonny) Soares said his father Chris lied his age and became a Merchant Mariner at age15.
Aloha Waianae Girl!

@Kanakaflip

3y↑2

Aloha bruddah. I live up here mainland too and this song brings me back home every time. 🤙🏾

@lonokane6516

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@Ya_U808

4y↑85

It brings tears to my eyes to see all the kanaka who had to leave the aina. Just as much as you miss home, we miss you.

@Hokua888

2y↑2

Yea; mahalo.

@christophergramling4898

2y↑4

We last kanaka are watching the last light of our blood and people these are the last generations we have almost gone the way of everyrhing else.... to say that something is hawaiian is the same as endangered or extinct..... breaks my heart knowing i cant afford to live in my home.. but id rather stay away than watch whats left of our people be destroyed by poverty, while they lose family homes.... than get marched off home... the generation the aloha finally died.......

@Hokua888

2y↑1

@@christophergramling4898 Christ, Jesus said to hate evil, brother, and I HATE that I agree fully with you since delusion has replaced island-Mystery !!!!

@Hokua888

2y↑2

@@christophergramling4898 Aloha♾

@asanagahisa3601

2y↑1

Mahalo

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@nancynogueras8603

2y↑21

Grew up in Kahaluu. Every time I get home sick this is my song.

@jporcel100

14y↑26

The ocean, the mountains, the trade winds, the sunsets, the people, the culture, the islands -- all rolled up into one. Thank you Olomana.

@blanketeyblank5309

26w

Everyting but the smells of the napua.

@openEfingerstyleguitar

4y↑29

Occasionally I have cried hearing some songs. But, I have never cried so many times to any other song. This one never fails. Every note contains the essence of Hawaii.

@farikalsayid5654

49w↑2

I’m not Hawaiian…my family is from Guam. But we love this song and we certainly feel it’s meaning. It holds even more meaning now for us, as it was one of my dad’s favorite songs. I cannot help but cry as I reminisce about him and living “down home” in our small village during the 1980s, while singing along to this song. Something about missing home…the time when life was simpler when you were younger, and when your family was still together. Gets me every time.

@krietor

7w↑1

I remember descending Olomana, leaping like a mountain goat from boulder to grass, from pathway to tree, flying, one with the 'aina, breathing the mountain air, māna flowing freely, my spirit glowing. I awoke from a nap on the floor of the ironwood forest at the foot of Olomana to rejoin the others, who had descended along the trail in the traditional way, when they arrived there near the road to return to civilization.
I know I am not as I was when I left Hawai'i, and I know that Hawai'i has changed, but I know we will accept each other as we are. Bimeby perhaps I will return. Then I shall again be in Hawai'i as Hawai'i has always been in me.

@Ya_U808

3y↑51

I’m reading through the comments and I can’t help but cry. Our way of life is changing so drastically and I feel nothing is being done to preserve it. I see so many out there who’ve been forced to move away from our home, our land, and most importantly what makes us, us. Come home and let’s stand together to take back and preserve our way of life. Aloha aina!

@lasamanthar0se

3y↑3

Eo! Come home ohana. Never surrender

@thatonehead

3y↑2

Born and spent my youngest years in Puna. Grew up in seattle, got enough for a downpayment and now i’m getting ready to come back home. Preserving our lifestyle and culture is important

@raymondcarter1137

Leaving for Washington in few months…hart is broken and I’m no longer welcome in the island I was born.
As a living relative of king David a queen lily farewell my Hawaii I will no longer be laid to rest in my birthplace.

@Lex7686

@@raymondcarter1137 7:7 8k"

@blanketeyblank5309

26w

I agree that HAWAIIANS have to get back. No Hawaiians No Aloha

@lionsntigers

14y↑16

This is one of those songs that prove you can travel back in time..to a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, a certain moment - even a certain second..and you can smell what you smelled, feel what you felt..and be there.....for just a little while..aloha -kuahiwi

@blanketeyblank5309

26w

Aloha. Jus saying

@rob44cor

11y↑41

This is spiritual for me, nothing tops the music of Hawaii for me. I grew up in Maunawili, one picture window I woke up to Olomana, the other window the Pali. Gods finest work. I miss it so. I pray I can get back to Hawaii as soon as I can. In the mean time I can listen to this music. Aloha ke Akua.

@Zach-dh2nf

1y↑2

My parents live in Maunawili. They moved there many years ago from Kaneohe. Mauniwili is God's Country. I now live in Seattle and get to visit HOME in Hawaii.

@redwave5268

52w↑2

@@Zach-dh2nf Windward side of Oahu near Mt. Olomana. Heaven on earth. I learned to swim at the YMCA down the road from Castle Hospital.

@mendyboio3917

33w

Did you make it back?

@stephenonaga

I also grew up in Maunawili , next to the bridge going up the road into the country and the newer homes just across the street . My cousin Dean got me listining to Olomana and Country Confort , he became a muscian and played at the ChartHouse in town for more than 30 years ! He just passed away last year and song will alway have a special place for me !

@scottb.4959

5y↑29

This is one of the most beautiful and melodic anthems to emerge from the Hawaiian music renaissance.

@mendyboio3917

33w

Makes me rember the Hawaiian renaissance every time!

@tracyspencer3946

6y↑23

My family's from Laie, but I was mainland born. Lived there from 1977 to 1980. Never was the same afterwards. I dedicated this song to my wife Melissa who passed away in 2007 from breast cancer. The song speaks to my heart and gives comfort to my soul. A hui ho Ka mea ohi nani, a hui ho.

@jaronhurlbut7134

11w

Aloha from Laie! 🙏🏼 Malama Kō Aloha!

@patriciayomes8800

This song is so beautiful. Like an Eagle soar so high in the winds.

@imsickofindignation

A hui hou! ❤ 👋🏼

@Sacred2Song

11y↑29

Every note of this magnificent song plucks at my heartstrings. I lived on Maui for 35 years and i am so homesick for Hawaii there are no words to convey how much i miss The majestic beauty, the magnificient hearts of the hawaiian people & those beautiful islands. I love every song Olomana ever recorded, that Jerry ever recorded but this one remains very special and deeply cradled in my heart forever. Beautiful Hawaii i love and miss you so much... someday i hope to return and never leave again.

@mendyboio3917

33w

Did you return?

@niaking1576

3y↑31

When my sisters were younger my dad used to play this song through the speakers while we ate dinner. He would sing along to the lyrics while the sun could be seen setting through our dining room window, the light summer breeze would flow in through the open doors and the small sounds of birds chirping could be heard outside. "Last night I dreamt I was returning..." I can still see him singing those words and I'm so happy that I have this song to remember him by. I love and miss you, dad.

@lojfiojo4725

4y↑30

One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, I feel so lucky to be able to listen to this on a loop, whenever I want.😀

@donnalynnerivera1704

6y↑70

Always brings tears to my eyes. Raised in Kahaluu till I was 10 years old. Memories so beautiful. Home will always be Hawaii.

@RAS-gn5ll

6y↑4

Donna Rivera Rivera I hope Hawaii holds to its traditions.... it’s beautiful and amazing

@bryanscruggs7566

3y↑2

Same here. Wish my parents kept me there. Moved when I was 10

@wanbelstap168

4y↑16

When I visited Hawaii for the first time ever from Papua New Guinea..I felt I had come home..it was as if I knew the soul of this land and it knew me...I realized many islanders feel this way about Hawaii..When I hear this song a type of deep inexplicable melancholy sense of homesickness washes over me...beautiful Hawaii..you will always be a special spiritual home to us..

@lisasommerlad1337

49w↑1

That is really interesting to read of your connection. PNG is so beautiful, like its people.
Love from Australia.

@qsiconsulting7680

4y↑17

I grew up near Kahalu'u and always will remember being a kid and spending my weekends there. I'm 53 now and there is not a day goes by I dont think about my dad and my ohana growing up in Honokohau. The most valuable thing we have is time with our families. Aloha ke akua!

@mendyboio3917

33w↑1

Aloha ke akua, mahalo nui!

@punagurl8

2y↑19

Last night I dreamt I was returning
And my heart called out to you
But I fear I won’t be like I left you
Me kealoha ku’u home o Kahalu’u

Love this song. Jerry Santos sang & wrote it beautifully.

@donhirano6969

52w↑3

A Bra that's Ole'mana song, I hope U know that.

@napili5470

17w

Olomana is no more and Jerry Santos wrote it and still performs singing it. Last time I saw Him was at the Hilton Hawaiian @@donhirano6969

@JohnKasingeraxplayer

9y↑167

For the home sick and dreamers......a gift from Hawaii. Aloha friends.

@c.yvettebenton4455

7y↑3

John Kasinger
I miss home so much. I dream I am back home in Kailua nearly every night. I live to see that dream come to fruition.
Love and Aloha to My Hanai bothers and sisters
C. Yvette Benton

@troopr3845

3y↑1

💖

@rallyman619

3y↑3

Thank you, I miss Hawaii every single day. I hope to one day be back, hopefully permanently.

@pereliniandrews-manuma1758

3y↑1

Love n miss these music! Stay Safe Aloha Land.

@djkc2000

9y↑584

This song touches my soul...makes me remember growing up on Oahu in the 70's and 80's swimming at Ala Moana beach, going to Kapiolani park, watching Checkers and Pogo after school and Kikaida, eating manapua and shave ice. Those were innocent times. And though the world and things change, my memories of those wonderful days stay and I will always consider Hawaii my home no matter where I am in the world.

@tooradixx

9y↑12

+D Chang me, too. Arrived in 1959, left in 1992, but my spirit is still on O'ahu!

@dougchan9587

8y↑14

+D Chang - Came to Hawaii for UH back in 70's and left for Mainland before 9-11. Everytime the plane coming in to HNL airport, I still feel that I am coming home. Do not feel that strong any other places that i went.

@l.j.sanchez2539

8y↑4

+Jah Boize I'm not sure that, I know what I'm doing, I wanted to make a comment, about a comment, about a song that brings tears of long past dreams......

@the-colorowdy

8y↑6

+D Chang
Da kine plate lunches....

@eganc1976

8y↑7

well said brother....cherish those memories and be thankful u were apart if it all

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@mauimango1964

2y↑6

Takes me back to the happy days I spent in Hawaii 1985-1998. Thank you Olomana!

@steveerino3731

7y↑100

One can never touch Hawaii...without Hawaii gon touch you back.

@bernardrueckner2029

5y↑2

Is true.

@SunnyIlha

1:38

@jayfailing6714

aloha aina me ke aloha Hawaii nei

@debbiejrosz2869

Amen!

@koreenakaleiohi2598

7y↑3

every single time I hear this song I cry I miss home

@srfrider1973

11y↑3

oahu.. 1965-1967 back 1968-1974 back 1976-1977 now indiana, want to know what i really miss? the koolaus , every morning to wake up and see the clouds and waterfalls.. and the smell of nuuanu pali drive,the eucalyptus.... and the smell of white ginger flowers......

@nikimrogerson

9y↑3

This song brings me back to the 70's. I still live in Kahalu'u.

@mercymott4274

6y↑14

Tears and fond memories...parents lived in Kahalu'u. Got married in Kahalu'u. This is one of my all time favorite songs. Getting chicken skin listening to it now.

@elvismaldonado3938

3y↑1

Das rite "Chicken Skin" :)

@ltlbitoevytng

7y↑428

My husband and I were listening to these guys sing in a restaurant in Honolulu when he proposed in front of my parents and asked my Dad for my hand. My Mom got so excited, she jumped up to hug us and knocked her hot Irish Coffee into Tom's lap. Amidst the confusion, my Dad said deadpan, "You can still back out, you know". They are all gone now, but I can close my eyes and remember how excited I was at that moment. I love the guitar in this .I love you, Tom. Dad and Mom.

@johnyohann6946

4y↑19

It's sad, now, to think those moments are so far away. But at least not the memories. Don't forget.

@christianmelhorn3258

4y↑28

That was so well written i feel like i just experienced this moment with you

@kats7949

4y↑13

how romantic

@Pamela-zu9yl

4y↑12

Thank you for sharing that memory....I'm totally smiling for you in that moment!

@alexskitsky579

4y↑5

❤

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@punagurl8

7y↑16

Jerry Santos & Robert Beaumont- what a fantastic musical duo. Beautiful Memories.

@twoshedtunes

6y↑22

Even though this song is about Hawaii, it strikes a chord in all us ex-pats who live a long way from our homes and culture ..thank you Olomana

@dwightkobatake6840

3y↑2

Very true💯

@Russ8270

6y↑65

Born and raised Kalihi, Hawaii never leaves the soul.

@marcandrews3945

6y↑2

Russ Shannon Born at Queens, raised in Kalihi. Aloha bruddah.

@elvismaldonado3938

Born at Queens, raised in Kalihi ( Kam IV Housing) went to Kaiwai Elem, Dole Inter, grad from Farrington High... Aloha Brah :)

@darkfan4706

Farrington Govs

@davidshuey9742

3y↑1

Kapiolani 1970, grew up in Kailua, Punahou '89. These sounds are in our DNA.

@moedallas3815

7y↑14

One of the most haunting and beautiful songs ever written, and arguably the best song that was ever written about Ha'waii. Stuck in Texas.

@RAS-gn5ll

Moe Dallas bring some Mahalo to Texas.

@ashbyfristoe2725

3y↑2

Waimanalo Blues...

@sharlamccool9078

8y↑56

Grew up on Maui and I miss it so much. Listen and cry to great Hawaiian music. I really wanna go back, brahdda, to the old days before condos and mansions. I want cane fields and skinny dipping in Kihei.

@MrCaduceo

6y↑2

problem is, the old days had operation Green Harvest, more social problems, and less tech and medicine. I get what you're saying though, gentrification hasn't been kind to Maui

@tommythompsonsurfer

5y↑4

KUMU RADIO AND KPOI! LOVE HAWAII TRYING TO GET BACK..PRAYERS.

@mcornett3788

3y↑1

Do not let maui turn into another oahu. Fight the tech overlords.

@cl5121

7y↑34

One of my most favorite songs of all time.

@normaclarke2505

C L )

@hawnboy

10y↑269

@jaretbondaug2

7y↑13

Lon Donald solid bradda

@burninhell4886

6y↑12

Lon Donald.
Thanks for the lyrics, and ALOHA!!! 🍎🐍

@gypsylynn45

6y↑9

Mahalo! <3

@MsAgnut

6y↑16

Second verse...should be at the end,
" Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
But I fear I am not as I left you...."

@nappynaquin1578

Akon

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@cowboypoet2067

14y↑8

No doubt one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

@hectorrivera6624

8y↑57

One of the deepest, most beautiful song I have ever heard.

@scottclifton5357

9y↑156

One of the best songs ever written or sung. I was living on Maui when I first heard Olomana do that song on the radio. I was so moved I had to pull over....I thought I was dreaming because I had just heard the most beautiful song ever. I remember that moment like it was yesterday.

@jayfailing6714

5y↑4

tell you what brah

@charlesm.9858

5y↑4

Mahalo for sharing, I came from ohau, now on maui..MAUI NO KA OI

@logisnews

5y↑2

Sublime.

@lojfiojo4725

4y↑4

You know what I feel the EXACT SAME way my guy , I wish i could hear it for the first time again as that was one of the best experiences of my life. I deadass listened to this song on loop for over an hour while on a boat. Anyways love from the Caribbean 🤙🏾

@byronharano2391

@@charlesm.9858 Charles. My dad is from Da Valley Isle and a graduate of Liahinanluna High School. My youngest sister a graduate of Maui High School. No doubt...Maui no ka'oi!

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@annelisebroberg2538

6y↑4

Aloha from Greenland, lovely song

@lahainatownebarbershop4237

6y↑176

This song makes me miss Hawaii even though I still live here. It's that powerful.

@msKristie

5y↑7

I know what you mean.

@delcieokamura7812

4y↑13

Me too. I know the feeling. It's not the same and never will be.

@SunnyIlha

4y↑5

Wow

Yes

@dj8350

4y↑7

Haha. I grew up in Kahaluu, I miss those small kid time days, and I still live here too 😀

@SunnyIlha

4y↑8

It also gettn me thinkin 'bout grin'din lomi salmon, poi, pipikaula, portagee sausage, rice, porkhash, & mounds of laulau, with guava juice - ice cubes inside da cup.

Then top it off drink hot Kona coffee with kulolo

Ohmahgawad!!!!
I die go heavun.

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@elvismaldonado3938

7y↑84

Crying in Long Beach, CA. I too remember watching Checkers and Pogo after school.... Boy, how I would trade anything to be back there, back then

@georgeyama6782

5y↑4

omg checkers n pogo....its been so so long ago that i haven't heard anyone mentioning those programs...

@shinrips

Speed Racer, Princess Knight
Checkers and Pogo-bobbing for apples, Professor Fun, making thos upside down glasses with your fingers, eating a donut from a string, etc. Great memories! Life was simple back then and everything was a heck of a lot cheaper-Horlicks, Astro pops, Pez, candy chockers, Ovaltine, cinnamon toast for snack, musubi, vienna sausage, and carrots for lunch. Soda-25cents.

@dj8350

Elvis:
“A very merry un-birthday to you, to you!”
I’d give you da penny grab, but no can 😀

@crazycatlady1304

Elvis, I think we were classmates...does Melissa Nunes ring a bell? Wahiawa Intermediate

@alexcarter8807

@@georgeyama6782 Remember C&P's show "On The Go" man it was great.

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@AE-ix2iz

4y↑4

My family moved from Samoa to Kalihi. Lived there for four years. Then moved to Kahaluu for my high school years. No matter how many times I’ve moved, “me ke aloha kuu home o Kahaluu”

@kentclark6420

I lived in Kahaluu during my high school years, also! Graduated Kailua High, in 1972. I had a district exemption to go to Kailua High. I loved Kahaluu so much. The most beautiful place, anywhere. And the local people were so kind and full of aloha. If only the real Hawaii could be preserved the way it used to be. Mahalo. Hau'oli La Pakoa!

@fillalau

14y↑1

Vaultboy said it perfectly. I've away for over 15 years and tearfully I have the memories.

@roseswearingen5983

9y↑196

I sit here in Fresno, homesick for Hawaii, this song takes me right back to where I grew up. Doing all these things as a kid before the many changes occurred. It was a magical place to grow up. . .aloha aina...

@ryanbaker1269

9y↑19

This lovely island home we all live in, just isn't the same as it used to be. The newer generation are losing touch with their roots, and aloha is a thing of the past. Cling dearly to those memories, I remember a day and time when these islands stood for something more than what this state has become. But I carry the aloha with me, in my heart, and I spread my mana'o everywhere I go, in hopes of rejuvination. I miss that energy I used to feel in everybody I would meet, oh how I wish I could go back. Aloha from Big Island!!

@heatherjones4064

9y↑6

Ryan Baker Love you my braddah, So does your Maui Family IMUA LUNAS!

@KeikoFXDesigns

9y↑4

+Rose Swearingen Yeah I know... Me too... I live in Portland Oregon these dayz... But, I feel that our culture never left any of us and still to this day and beyond it will always will be with you.

@fleem5

8y↑3

Wow. Have lived in Clovis for the past 11 years (Missouri a few years before Clovis). Left the 50th back in '02. Never really got homesick. Until a couple of years ago. Been back the past couple of years. Hard to leave and return to the Central Valley...

@bperry573

7y↑3

Linda Lu hahahahahhaa!
I lived in Japan for three years when I was in the navy...I'm everywhere you don't want me to be! Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@CindyBlankenship

13y↑12

Having lived in Hawaii for 14 years, off and on since the 80's and hearing from my grandparents who went before me about so many sad changes, this song tugs at my heart. The lyrics are also so true for anyone wondering about "going back home" wherever that home may be. And also about one's life too "when our world was small enough of dreams." The quintessential Hawaii song, "Ku`u Home' has multiple layers of meanings and Olomana is just beautiful.

@royklemm4229

5y↑10

I spent 43 years in Hawaii, love music; this song is the most beautiful Hawaiian song I know of. Fantastic arrangement!! Touches my soul.

@rjcortez971

5y↑119

This song eases my soul for some reason. I’ve never been to Hawaii and I have nobody in my family that is Hawaiian. But I have always wanted to go there or live there. I have really bad anxiety most of the time. When I’m stressed out or I can’t sleep, I put this song on and it immediately makes me feel very happy and makes me remember the very few good times that I had as a child. Makes me appreciative towards life. It also helps me sleep.... no kidding. I’m out like a light and snoring before the song is even over lol. Much love to you all.

@lojfiojo4725

4y↑8

Rj Cortez this song really is the definition of true beauty

@michellacroix6725

4y↑6

Aloha Ka Kou, brother' it's a piece of Paradise

@puppet003

4y↑11

Then when this Covid is over, you get yourself a plane ticket, and CV one visit these island(s)...I'm on Oahu, by the way, I live in Kahaluu....I'm looking at the ocean, its beautiful, peaceful, and I am not a local, but I was blessed to work here in 1979...I'm still here....so Aloha to you, I'm glad you are comforted by the sounds of Hawaii...May the Peace of God continue to Bless you. Aloha, Tom Mestas

@runningwithshemp

4y↑3

I live on O'ahu for 11 years, my guess with slack-key guitar or a lot musician from Hawai'i is the music based on pacing of the Tradewinds. I think it's why you find is southing. It like being up camping at Kahana bay and hearing the trade rustling sound in plam fronds all night. For example Arthur Lyman grew up in HNL and even if Yellow bird is faux Polynesian the tempo is same as more serious musicians from the era (like Gabby Pahuni) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv1GpoaSzxQ

@rusty6583

4y↑5

If it touches your soul. U have the Aloha spirt flowing.
When u come here. U will feel it all around u. U will b happy I kno it.

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@kamakoaliifukui6560

6y↑10

This song touched so many of us growing up in Hawai'i Nei. For me it was in the valleys along the Hamakua Coastline. Our playground was vast and we would stumble across hidden waterfalls filling swimming holes with clear, cool water.

@redwave5268

6y↑6

Been in the mainland (Seattle) since 1984. This song takes me back. Listening to KKUA while building my plastic model dune buggy.

Miss Kailua, Enchanted Lakes. Under the shadow of Mt. Olomana.

@vvidalvv48

8y↑31

just a child of Hawaii 90's baby with so much aloha and mana to give the world today. mahalo ke kapunas. my weaknesses became my strengths. Hawaii Oahu is where I'm from ewa to waipahu to waianae to wahiawa forever a local boyy in the the mainland

@md2787

8y↑3

+Vincent Vidal, yes Hawai'i no ka 'oi

@wendymotyer4790

8y↑2

My sister and I lived in Maui and now she lives in galiano island and I live on the mainland but every time I stepped on the plane to come,back to Maui this song was playing and I couldn't wait to get back to the islands, we love this song! W

@geekane9462

6y↑2

My most favorite song in da world. It always brings me back though I'm no longer on the islands. I pray to return before I die to my heartland. "Me ke aloha ku' u home o' Oahu"

@LottiDotti76

12y↑34

One of the best gifts the Air Force has given me over the last 16 years of service is 3 years living on the islands. It was my first base and I still miss it there. I loved the people, culture, the island life and especially the music. There was never an unhappy song. Even if I couldn't understand the lyrics, the music itself made me happy.

@kuo8088

I am born and raised in Hawaii. When I was at AIT for the army, 6 months away from home, I’d listen to these songs whenever I got homesick to soothe me. Would bring a tear to my eyes whenever it was just me alone at CQ during the night.

@beautydisguisedastruth

You should look into Abby Martins (empire files) report about what the military base (cant recall which island/area) is storing underground, what I believe is mass amounts of jet fuel that is now seeping through after 60 or so years of storage since the cold war. Which has devastated local water supplies and wildlife.

@beautydisguisedastruth

https://youtu.be/7mMsGi11F-U

@dmhburque

It's sad what they're doing to Hawaii

@LottiDotti76

@Beauty Disguised as Truth I heard something about that. It's from WWII if I remember right. A fuels storage broke down and is seeping into the ground water. It's sad that they did all that stuff back then without thinking what the long term effects would be.

@benrodrigues9248

8y↑80

Aloha my people I remember this song growing up in nanakuli in the 70s my pops and family playing olomana and now missing my mom and pops. I always make sure that my kids today love and honor olomana

@mattholck7655

6y↑5

Ben Rodrigues Amene! Gotta continue da Aloha for da 'Ohana and da 'aina hanau...da keiki need to know in order to perpetuate our people and homeland

@shannonwilliams8065

5y↑4

My mother is from Nanakuli! We would move back and forth from California to Hawaii and vice versa. Spent a good amount of time there in the '70s. It was rough being the first hapa haole in my mothers family but have fond memories of life in Nanakuli.

@jimmybolusan9143

My trainer/supervisor when i was at Hickam in the late 70's was Blanchard Rodrigues from Nanakuli. Any relationships?

@markdourn8551

7y↑1

Family home going back to the mid 1960's is in Hauula up the windward side. Still get out there every winter and think of this song every time I drive through Kahaluu coming from Honolulu.

@theresacastanon1291

4y↑2

Every time I hear my#1faviorite song I cry I grew up kahalu the happiest times in my life 😭😭😭

@chrispenovaroff

5y↑3

Living in Utah bussing the homegrown sounds for the bradaz ✊🏽 CHEEEE HUUUU 🤙🏽

@RichardMikesell

9y↑47

I am blessed to live in the beautiful mountains of Park City, Utah; but I constantly miss Hawaii. Once Aloha gets into your blood, it never leaves and ever beckons when you're away. Working on a plan to get back...permanently.

@josh1248

I go skiing there all the time, i live in hawaii

@josh1248

Ur lucky park city is amazing, the town ski lift and the town life is amazing i hate hawaii theres nothing to do and its just a giant tourist attraction now

@carolscandura285

I tried to go back last October...Oh My. Everything has changed so much. Still, I found peace and some of the Olden Times on the Island of Moloka'i. But don't tell anybody!

@MrLouis2865

5y↑4

Good luck..da windward side is still country. People who hate da aina don't know the true spirit of da land da people and of course da ohana. ...you can do it brahda! Live your dream. One life.

@hughlong7983

7y↑2

Beautiful song. Remember it from the time Nov '88-Jun '92 when I was stationed at Schofield Barracks. Sure miss the islands.

@advhutch

10y↑15

growing up on the Waianae coast in the 70s and 80s, this was one of the staple songs before even FM100. miss it. living in texas now. big difference in culture but Waianae will always be home. Aloha

@MetalUnboundTV

10y↑2

Hana Hou! hell yeah. I was also grown up to this song as well... Originally from Maili, Mailiona st. Now I re-located in Oregon.

@advhutch

10y↑3

bra , I used live on maliona , about 3 doors down from baba b.

@MetalUnboundTV

10y↑2

advhutch Yeah I left Maili 20 years ago... Ever since I have been stuck in Portland Oregon. Their are a diverse culture here but, there are also a culture that keeps it to themselves... Personally I really don't like it. I miss maili/Waiane and tumble land the a lot. That was my homeland.

@candacetorres282

advhutch. Yeah...lol

@olddocman

4y↑3

I was stationed in Pearl Harbor for 4 years. In short, I got involved with the culture and the people. It was so hard to leave when the time came. yes I married one of the islanders from Wailua and still have family on island today. With all that has happened since (even a return trip in 2016) for my brother in law's funeral. I can say no place feels the way Hawaii does. I miss it so much. And like so many other listeners here on YT, I too have a hard time controling the tears. Hawaii.... you will ever be inside me and never leave.

@MarkPapayoanou

8y↑41

Nothing reminds me of home more than this song. Every time I hear it I long to go back home.

@tutorials4593

wtf? why u so li dat? never did anything to you. Besides, I'm hapa.

@MarkPapayoanou

7y↑1

yeah, right. you jus one loco baka ハーフ。

@abesingh6338

3y↑1

I am a local boy from Honolulu living on the mainland now and I start my day listening to this song -haukapila

@drkevincampbell

5y↑2

Spent my youth on Oahu. Miss my Aloha family.

@steverz383

8y↑53

Wow!! I just got chills down my back.
I have not heard this song since almost 40 yrs ago.
When my birth-family use to live in Kaneohe, O'ahu.
That's how old this great awesome song is. =)

@l.j.sanchez2539

Steve Hall Hay my bruddah...."with Warmest Aloha...."

@steverz383

Eh, brah. Howzit? =)

@hulaqde

7y↑1

<3 Kaneohe \m/

@l.j.sanchez2539

7y↑6

I posted alot of these beautiful "local" songs on my Facebook page......

@brahnini

7y↑2

+Steve Hall you went Castle?

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@bperry573

9y↑150

as I sit here in Vermont listening to this song, tears fall from my eyes...

@heatherjones4064

9y↑6

+Brent Perry I learned to dance this song, Kupuna Saffrey in Lahaina at Kam 3 school, it came back, I always cry when I hear this even if I only do the hand movements..chicken skin.

@azulsahar

7y↑9

sitting in my kitchen in Mississippi. Kaneohe girl.

@bperry573

7y↑1

Bryan K. Right on. You're right. Cannot understand why people gotta act like that.
Mahalo!

@bperry573

Lol

@bperry573

Jah Boize honestly, I have no idea who that is

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@ikaikaulua

5y↑2

One of the braddah played this in our cell..... Fell in love with the lyrics and guitar

@mamalamahawaii

12y↑1

I lived in Kahalu'u for 16 years. My house on the hill overlooked Kaneohe Bay. I miss it so much!!!

@abounassr

8y↑80

Brings tears to my eyes. Home to me will ALWAYS be grandma's house in Kaneohe.

@valerielee5879

8y↑5

and Pahoa!

@warren583

7y↑3

Pohoiki Rd, specifically.

@hulaqde

7y↑1

Paewalani Pl , next to Green Haven

@stephenduadua1384

7y↑2

Valerie Lee I grew up in pahoa. I miss home so much.

@valerielee5879

7y↑2

i LOVE that you grew in Pahoa. My Mommy did TOOOO!

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@erniematson3920

10y↑4

..can't imagine living in a different lifetime...what great music in the last century

@TheHelm86

14y↑1

I live in Bellevue Wa.....when I hear these songs....it reminds me my soul is still there in Hawaii....I miss them both...my soul and Hawaii.

@madmauster

5y↑1

I moved to Hawaii in 84, I was 14 years old! my friend Ted introduced this song to me. There is no other song that brings me closer to Hawaii! So blessed to have had 33 years in paradise! So sad! From the mainland!

@RAS-gn5ll

madmauster if you don’t mind me asking, why did you leave?

@kentclark6420

@@RAS-gn5ll In my case, I had no choice to move to Hawaii in '68, because I was a kid living with my family. But 8 years later I moved back to the mainland, in spite of falling in love with the Islands, because I felt that being an outsider, I was more a part of the problem in Hawaii, than the solution.

@DavidSmith-dh7gs

8y↑68

for all of us who lived in Hawai'i - it was a better time. How I wish I could return and stay.

@Aregak2009

4y↑1

I love this song it makes me like i am in hawii🤩🤩🤩😘😘😘🤪🤪🤪❤❤❤🧡🧡🧡💛💛💛💚💚💚💙💙💙💜💜💜💘💘💘💘💔💔💔

@debbiejrosz2869

I don't recommend being homeless on Oahu anymore it sure has changed since the late 90s cops don't let you sleep anywhere and the ice addicts took over all of Waikiki

@joleneversailles241

9y↑32

Last night I dreamt I was returning....

@scottsumner2912

2y↑2

This always takes me to a very special place! What a place.

@jamesdclapper9860

7y↑2

I was born on Lana'i and raise in Kaneohe and Kahalu'u and it takes me home every time! Love my Hawaiian mele's......

@robertcariaga8133

5y↑8

Born in Kalihi valley, raised in Waianae, ended up on Maui. Life can’t get any better than living in the Islands

@SirRat1959

7y↑17

Missing what was and will never be again. Good times good friends even if I go back home...its not home anymore. that is gone...thank you my brudahs for the songs...they are forever ;0)

@karenmorgan8228

8y↑1

Nuuanu born and raised...Always go to this song when i feel my home calling me back....And ive caught O'opu in a mountain stream...ONO !!!!!

@1truebloodlove

9y↑1

tis song takes me back to a bad time in my life. i was sent to live with my aunt in makakilo, hi in 1976. this song was on the radio as part of the kgb talent search. i've been searching for thisd for the past 30 pr so years.....thank you to whomever posted it!!

@teresasantana45

2y↑3

I’m married to a Hawaiian man and have come to his home many times during our 35 years together. We loved taking my mother in law to the old Chai’s at Aloha tower to hear Jerry Santos perform. He was always very gracious and came to give her a hug and dedicate a song to her. I fell in love with all his music, but this was always my favorite. My mother in law had to leave her beloved islands to live with us in California when she could no longer care for herself at 96. She passed away this last December, at age 102. We brought her ashes home to be buried next to her husband and daughter. My husband and I are listening to this lovely song, getting choked up. Beautiful memories.

@judiclark3927

5y↑2

Went to college in Hawaii in the late 70's. Would have loved to have stayed there, but it was not to be. Songs like this bring back wonderful memories.

@jimholliday5622

11y↑1

miss the Aina so much and this particular song makes me so home sick for my old home Lahaina. Coming home soon, can't wait.

@gilbertfayette6123

7y↑1

hawaiian music is the most beautiful in the world

@RAS-gn5ll

Gilbert Fayette amen to that....

@fasiujione5835

5y↑6

I have left Hawaii but I have taken so many memories with to last a lifetime. Thank you Olomana for the beautiful memories and sharing your music. I shall return some day to experience the eauty of your islands!

@williambrandt3564

7y↑4

I remember cruzing the beaches of Oahu in the 80's with my mom dad & sister. Man those where the day's! Thanks for all the great memories Oahu! Most of all the time that was spent with my 👪

@tihareviriamu3390

4y↑1

Slack Keys makes all Hawaiian so beautifull to listen especially Ku'uhome o kahalu'u

@olekoi1

7y↑1

I lived at Aiea at Eagle Circle in the early seventies, and visited Honolulu on and off till the late nineties. I love the place and would live there again if I can afford it. Waimanalo Blues and other beautiful Hawaiian songs bring back great memories.

@diannegardner6491

3y↑6

This song always brings me to tears.

@lolife52

8y↑28

70's Makiki, Waipahu, Makakilo, Ewa Beach, Hau Bush, Waimanalo, Kailua, Diamond Head Crater fest. weekends in Waikiki on Kalakaua. Laie. Yes this song takes me back to a place that runs deep in my veins. Mahalo Olomana. Aloha...

@ewabchayn

3y↑2

Yes ewa beach, hau bush(Taylor’s farm)80’s

@robertdemota4655

8y↑1

this beautiful song always takes me back in a time wen friends and family would gather and actually had fun together wit no fuss and fights!.. Aloha to my home Big Island.. Me Ke Aloha Ku'u Home O Honoli'i...

@keawetafaoa

5y↑1

Makes me feel like a Keiki again. I can listen to this all day. #KuKiaiMauna

@SENATOURS

9y↑17

Being a Hawaiian at heart, This song makes me long for the Islands. "Me ke aloha"

@leianamokuleia

4y↑7

Makes me miss what I had before. I had a family on the beach in Hawai’i on North Shore. Mom would play since when we had parties, luau and just get togethers with the whole compound of 12 units. Those volleyball games, dogs playing on the beach, Bon fires at night, platform in the wall where we played games, firework wars with the neighbors 😂 who had the most bad ass 🤪, and when the food was sooo Ono 😋 Now that’s all gone but at least I have the memories

@NogoJusPride

8y↑1

reminisce... I'm so proud to have been born in a paradise. no matter the generation nothing but respect for these artist. thank you.!

@marbleman5161

5y↑1

I truly miss those days back in the 70s and this song takes me back to those wonderful days.

@ladybythebeach

14y↑10

Olamana has always been one of my favorite Hawaiian groups. Along with Iz, and Cecilio&Kapono. This is beautiful! They sure don't make music nowdays like they did back in the 70"s.

@ashbyfristoe2725

3y↑1

Waimanalo Blues

@dennisevangelista7654

5y↑2

A Beautiful song by a beautiful group * Olomana singing from da Heart - to you Anty Emma DeFries *

@reiandmax

5y↑1

I dedicated this song to myself from my brother Larry Marino. This song is us - we did all those things sang in the song, living in Waiahole Valley as we grew up - it talks about me lingering and he no longer can it seems; and he telling me "Please do not hold on to me we all must go alone" I listened to this song over and over when I was taking care of my brother, trying to keep him comfortable knowing I would miss him dearly. Love you my Brother, rest in peace, I'll see you and Laura later.