Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_hawaiian-butterfly_louise-and-ferera-waikiki-orchestra-baskette-santly_gbia0010451a
Publication Date
1917
Lyrics
Somewhere in Hawaii, I'm sending a wire
To someone waiting there for me,
Among the flowers She counts the hours,
She simply carried my heart away,
And I say in dreams ev'ry day:
CHORUS
Beautiful Hulu, Down in dreamy Honolulu,
I am feeling so peculiar,
Since I first met you.
In a moonlit garden fair, Cupid, he is warden there,
Just like the flowers you're true,
Waiting and dreaming a garden of roses;
Sometime in the bright Hawaii sunshine,
Dear, I'm going to make you all mine,
And that is just why,
Songbirds sing in tune to these words,
When I come back some day, we'll fly away,
Hawaian Butterfly. Beautiful fly.
She answered the wire I sent to Hawaii
With simple words, like, "I love you,"
And since she told me, I can see plainly,
Soon I'll be telling you all good bye,
I must go, for I love her so:
Recommended Citation
Baskette, Billy; Little, George A.; and Santly, Joseph H., "Hawaiian Butterfly" (1917). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 571.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/571
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
The latest song and trot craze!
Hawaiian Butterfly
Words by George A. Little, music by Billy Baskette, Joseph Santly
New York : Leo. Feist Inc.
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