Tiki song - Leilani by the Hoodoo Guru's

Sitting at work humming a song to myself then I realsied that it may of of interest to other tiki-heads. It's certainly not lounge, but just read these tiki-virgin-sacrifice lyrics;

Somewhere on a South Pacific island
Sits a young man staring at the surf.
His native girlfriend died a death quite violent
A tribal sacrifice made to the earth.

She was brown, her hair was black, her eyes were blue.
A chief's daughter, Leilani was her name.
She and her young man made a handsome two
But lava tore them both apart again.

Leilani, don't go to the volcano (he'd say).

They were saving for a little hut,
She collected sea-shells every day.
Everynight they'd share a cigarette
But The ancient, angry gods got in the way.

Leilani, don't go to the volcano (he'd plead).

(CEREMONY:)
Katoomba, Hey! Macumbah, Ho!
Umgawah! Hey! Ho! Hey-eh! Ah...
Leilani - crula-bula-ulladulla-wok-a-tai
Aba-laba-laba, Hut!

Leilani-nevageta-huta-tera-cota-tile
Aba-laba-laba Hut!
Umgawah!!!

Still the young man sits upon the beach,
He's staring misty-eyed out into space.
He's thinking about his girlfriend (of late, deceased),
At least her death had purpose; now his life is a waste!
Leilani, don't go to the volcano (he'd beg her)

indeed!... related:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=6220&forum=1

j$

Doh! I didn't even check to see if anyone had posted the lyrics to Leilani, I just assumed I'd be first. I'd best go sacrifice myself.......................................

(Johnny to quote Lux Interior...'you've got good taste'.)

I used to LOVE the Hoodoo Gurus back in High School days, which is when I probably last heard this song. Thanks for the reminder boys!

it seemed around those days when everything cool was australian...

g'day, j$

On 2004-01-13 12:07, Johnny Dollar wrote:
it seemed around those days when everything cool was australian...

g'day, j$

The Stems, The Stomach Mouths, The Scientists, Nick Cave, Bad Seeds,The Lime Spiders... Anybody remember a band called THE MOFFS? Anybody? Anybody???

Gurus did rock out, but I felt they held on a little to long. And were not recognised for being as good as they were.
They should have been as big as The Church was in their moment of fame.

Not to mention INXS and Midnight Oil.

On 2004-01-14 00:12, Shipwreckjoey wrote:
Not to mention INXS and Midnight Oil.

Indeed, Never big on Inxs, Midnight Oil was great. Now much lower on the "cool" meter, Men at Work.

TG

I still have both the Hoodoo Guru's Stoneage Romeo and The Lime Spider's The cave comes alive on vinyl. I am sure I got rid of Men at Work though.
The Hood Gurus were from down under? I thought they were an LA band.
One of my favaorite bands fron the day were The Replacements. "Tommy gets his tonsils out" still gets me amped when I give it a listen.
And lets us not forget Manny, Moai & Jack by the Dickies.

Chongolio

-- I believe that our Heavenly Father invented the monkey because he was disappointed in man."
... Mark Twain

[ Edited by: Chongolio on 2004-01-14 14:12 ]