little surprise
He's the Little Saint Nick
(He don't miss no one)
Hawaii Calls: Webley Edwards presents A Merry Hawaiian Christmas
This endeavor stars Boyce Kaihiihikapuokalani, a citizen remarkable, if not for his voice, then at least for courage in signing his kindergarten drawings. The album also features a number of other bilinguists, who sing every few lines of most of the cuts in "ear-caressing" Hawaiian and the rest in plain old English. The result is jarring, to say the least; not to disparage our compatriots to the southwest, but consider the following phonetic interpretation of "Jingle Bells":
Kani Kani Pele
Jingle Bells
Kani wa oh wa may
Oh what fun
Iki ah hoh ho ho iki
In a one-horse open sleigh
Eeeee-yoooooh!
Then there's the song which seems to have been translated from the English into Hawaiian and back into English by someone who speaks only Finnish. Suffice it to say that these are the key ingredients in this version of the "Twelve Days of Christmas":
12 television
11 missionary (amen)
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