Hello Hawaii How Are You? 1915

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 5 Sep 2008
2008

Captain Jinks one night on Broadway,
all alone,
read the news about the wireless telephone.
Pretty soon his thoughts began to stray,
over seven thousand miles away,
then he went and drew a whole month's pay
to 'phone and say:

Hello, Hawaii! How are you?
Let me talk to Honolulu Lou,
to ask her this:
"Give me a kiss, give me a kiss
by wireless,"
Please state,
I can't wait to hear her reply,
for I had to pawn ev'ry little thing I own,
to talk from New York
through the wireless telephone,
Oh! Hello, Hawaii!
How are you? GoodBye!

Hello, Hawaii! How are you?
Let me talk to Honolulu Lou,
to ask her this:
"Give me a kiss, give me a kiss
by wireless,"
Please state,
I can't wait to hear her reply,
for I had to pawn ev'ry little thing I own,
to talk from New York
through the wireless telephone,
Oh! Hello, Hawaii!
How are you? GoodBye!

After he was thrugh his 'phoning,
he was broke,
to his friends he started moaning,
it's no joke.
For the money spent
to 'phone that far,
I could buy myself a motor car.
But I love her like a real Jack Tar
so there you are.

Hello, Hawaii! How are you?
Let me talk to Honolulu Lou,
to ask her this:
"Give me a kiss, give me a kiss
by wireless,"
Please state,
I can't wait to hear her reply,
for I had to pawn ev'ry little thing I own,
to talk from New York
through the wireless telephone,
Oh! Hello, Hawaii!
How are you? GoodBye!

Hello, Hawaii! How are you?
Let me talk to Honolulu Lou,
to ask her this:
"Give me a kiss, give me a kiss
by wireless,"
Please state,
I can't wait to hear her reply,
for I had to pawn ev'ry little thing I own,
to talk from New York
through the wireless telephone,
Oh! Hello, Hawaii!
How are you? GoodBye!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Hello Hawaii How Are You? 1915
Music by Jean Schwartz
Lyrics by Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie
© 1915 by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 5 September 2008 at 08.45
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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