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Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love) 

Music by Maurice Jarre

The theme song from the 1965 movie, "Dr. Zhivago", winner of 5 Academy Awards.
Albums 1995 On Stage

Little Brown Gal 

Words and music by Don McDiarmid & Lee Wood (1935). 

This song was featured in the 1957 movie South Seas Adventure

 
 
It's not the islands fair that are calling to me
It's not the balmy air nor the tropical sea
It's a little brown gal in a little grass skirt
In a little grass shack in Hawaii
 
It isn't Waikiki or Kamehameha's pali
Not the beach boys free with their hoomalimali
It's a little brown gal in a little grass skirt
In a little grass shack in Hawaii

Through that island wonderland

She's broken all the kanes' hearts

It's not hard to understand

For that wahine is a gal of parts

   
I'll be leaving soon but the thrill I enjoy
Is not the island moon nor the fish and the poi
It's just a little brown gal in a little grass skirt
In a little grass shack in Hawaii

 
Albums 1968 Hawaiian Ragtime

Lovely Hula Hands 

 

Written by Aggie Auld (1939).

 

Auld was inspired by a hula dancer at a party and remarked, "Aren't her hands lovely".
 
 
Lovely hula hands
Graceful as the birds in motion
Gliding like the gulls over the ocean
Lovely hula hands, kou lima nani e
 
Lovely hula hands
Telling of the rains in the valley
And the swirling winds over the pali
Lovely hula hands, kou lima nani e
I can feel your soft caresses of your hula hand
Your lovely hula hands
Every little move expresses so I'll understand
All the tender meaning
 
Of your hula hands
Fingertips that say aloha
Say to me again I love you
Lovely hula hands, kou lima nani e

 

 

Albums

1968

Hawaiian Ragtime