There's a place in hawaii
That is very dear to me
I am homesick as can be
Won't you listen to my plea?

I want to go back to my little grass shack in kealakekua hawaii
I want to be with all the kanes and wahines that i knew long ago

I can hear old guitars a-playing
On the beach at ho'onaunau
I can hear the hawaiians saying
"komo mai no kaua ika hale welakahao"

It won't be long 'til my ship will be sailing back to kona
A grand old place that's always fair to see.
I'm just a little hawaiian and a homesick island boy,
I want to go back to my fish and poi,

I want to go back to my little grass shack in kealakekua, hawaii
Where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by
Where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by