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 hoonaunau I can hear the hawaiians saying "komomai 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 homeside 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 humuhumu, nukunuku a puaa goes swimming by Where the humuhumu, nukunuku a puaa goes swimming by 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 hoonaunau I can hear the hawaiians saying "komomai 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 homeside 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 humuhumu, nukunuku a puaa goes swimming by