The Latest Song and Trot Craze, 1917.
Words by Geo. A. Little.
Music by Billy Baskette and Joseph Santly.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Somewhere in Hawaii, I’m sending a wire
To someone waiting there for me
Among the flowers she counts the hours
She simply carried my heart away
And I say in dreams every day
CHORUS
Beautiful Hulu
Down in dreamy Honolulu
I am feeling so peculiar
Since I first met you
In a moonlit garden fair
Cupid, he is warden there
Just like the flowers, you’re true
Waiting and dreaming in a garden of roses
Sometime in the bright Hawaiian sunshine
Dear, I’m going to make you all mine
And that is just why
Songbirds sing in tune to these words
When I come back some day, we’ll fly away
Hawaiian Butterfly
2. She answered the wire I sent to Hawaii
With simple words, like “I love you”
And since she told me, I can plainly see
Soon I’ll be telling you all goodbye
I must go, for I love her so