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My Little Grass Shack

(In Kealakekua, Hawaii)

Words and Music by Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison and Johnny Noble - 1933

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Bb	-               Gm       G7	C7	-
F7	-	Bb            D7	Gm          Bb
D7	D+    D7	G7	-
C7	-	F7	-                          F+
Bb	-                Gm      G7	C7	-
F7	-	D	-
G7	-	C7	-              Edim
Bb	-                            G7	C7	-
F7    Cm7    Dm    Gdim	F7	Bb	-
F7    Cm7    Dm    Gdim	F7	Bb	-         (F7 repeat)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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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 homesick 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.
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Performer Links:

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Watch Roy Smeck perform "My Little Grass Shack" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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