A 1922 popular song.
Words by Prince Moki.
Music by Malie Kalani.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Tropic shades are creeping
Dusky eyes are weeping
There all the while, fair golden isle
I hear you sigh for me
Silv’ry moonbeams falling
Where a voice is calling
There I belong
Sweet land of song over the sea
Chorus
Whisp’ring tenderly from the shores of Waikiki
Comes a voice so dear to me like a bygone memory
She’s waiting ‘neath Hawaiian skies
I can hear her lonely sighs
The palm trees, the calm breeze
Just whisper of paradise
The moonlight up above her
Whispers that I love her
I hear the rippling waters say
“He’ll be coming back some day”
In Hawaiian whispers sweet and low
- Silv’ry stars are gleaming
Now my love is dreaming
Far, far away, I long to stray
Down by the moonlit sea
Hand in hand we’d wander
On the shore down yonder
Where night birds croon
There ‘neath the moon sweetly for me
Sung here by Fred Feild: