Chords for Ei Nei - "ʻAkahikuleana A Ka Piko" with Hula by Taizha Keakealani Hughes-Kaluhiokalani

to learn Mele that [Dm] haven't been popularized,
_ _ or whatever the English word is.
[Eb] And it's great for us because we get to learn,
because the [C] three of us, we love learning these things.
[B] And it's been a fabulous journey so far.
And _ [Abm]
we're gonna share [G] with you a journey right here.
And [C] at this time, friends and family, [D] if we can,
_ [Dm] yeah, she's over there, okay.
At this [Abm] time, we wanna bring to the stage
Ms.
Aloha Hula, Taija [E] Keakelani.
Hello, dear friends [N] and family.
_ _ _ Hello, Ms.
Aloha.
You know, [F] as a male hula, even as [B] a male hoka,
[Db] we go through these journeys, we [Eb] transform,
we learn, we grow, we evolve.
And sometimes we get trimmed and cut down and [E] whatnot,
but we ulu and [C] _ we [F] [C] eolamao.
So we wanna share [Dm] with you her journey
that [Eb] takes you back to Waipi'o Valley,
which is her actual moku'o home.
[Bm] So we wanna share with you a Mele entitled
Akahi Kuleana, it goes something [N] like this.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ E li'u [C] i'o e _ _ [D] ku'u i'o
_ _ _ E li'u i'o ka [Am]'i kuleana
_ [G] E li'u i'o ka _ [D]'i _ _ _ _ [C] _ kuleana
[D] E _ _ _ [Bm] li'u i'o ka [Em] _ _ 'i [E] _ [C] kuleana _
_ [D] _ E li'u i _ [G] _ 'o _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ ka [G] _ [C]'i _ [Am] _ [B] _ kuleana
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [B] _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
E li'u i'o ka [Em]'i _ _ [C] _ _
kuleana
E li'u [D] _ _ i [E] _ 'o [D] ka _ _ [Am] [E]'i kuleana
E li'u i'o [C] ka'i kuleana
[Bm] E li'u i'o ka'i _
[D] _ _ _ _ kuleana _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ E _ [Bm] li'u i'o ka [Em] _ 'i _ [C] kuleana
E li'u _ [D] i _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [E]'o _ [Am] _ [A] _ ka'i kuleana
E [Dm] li'u [E] i _ _ 'o _ [Am] ka [E] _ 'i _ kuleana
_ [A] _ _ _ _
_ E _ li'u _ _
[Em] i'o _ _ _ ka _
[Gbm] _ 'i [D] kuleana
E li'u _
[E] _ _ i [A] _ _ 'o ka'i kuleana
E li'u i'o _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] ka'i _ _ _ kuleana
E _ _ li'u _
[Em] _ _ i [A]'o ka'i kuleana
E li'u i'o ka'i kuleana _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _