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Mele Kalikimaka
--R. Alex Anderson
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Mele Kalikimaka!
Click here to play Mele Kalikimaka, sung by Bing
Crosby
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Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day
That's the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way
To say "Merry Christmas to you."
(Repeat)
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or other songs such as "Santa's Gone Hawaiian", go to
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This song was written by R. Alex Anderson (Robert Alexander
Anderson), who
was born in Honolulu in 1894, and from high school on to his death in 1995
composed nearly 200 songs.
He wrote Mele Kalikimaka in 1949 and though I am not sure who first recorded
it, it was probably Bing Crosby. Crosby made a record of it in 1950 with
the Andrews Sisters (maybe on the backside of his White Christmas single?),
and it was an instant big hit.
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