Garage Sale Hula
Album: Man Overboard
By: Chaim
By: Chaim
Duration
1:59
Genres
Description
I picked up a ukulele on my first visit to Maui a couple of years ago, and instead of learning any chords, I just fooled around making up my own, which are, of course, chords - and this is what I came up with. Then I continued fooling around and wrote the words. Check out the video on this song, which was filmed at that time.
Lyrics
I bought a ukulele in Wailuku At a rummage sale, bought a radio too From a roly poly lady and she sang a song While her daughter danced the hula and my wife danced along. The daughter was round and brown as the soil And my wife has a figure like Olive Oyl But she sang so pretty and they danced so sweet Like tellin’ a story with their hands and their feet. It rained every day in Houwelo On the windward side where the trade winds blow Livin’ off the grid as best we can Fryin’ our bread in a frying pan I used to be a broker like Paul Gaugin Till he ran off to Tahiti to be a natural man But I wanted to go native and I let myself go On vacation to Hawaii where the coconuts grow Now I’m just a middle aged howlee man Kinda lyin in the sun tryin to get a tan Tryin to learn the ukulele to impress my friends When I get back to the mainland and the journey ends No man is an island so the poet did say That means we’re all connected in a deeper way You can call me bro’ when you see me come We’re all God’s creatures under the sun.
