Everybody Does It in Hawaii (E)
Key: E

Music and Lrics by Elsie McWilliams and Jimmie Rodgers
Copyright 1929
 
Lyrics and Chords provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 07/31/2018
File edited 06/01/2019

These lyrics are taken from a Jimmie Rogers recording,
minus the yodeling.
Jimmie Rogers sang it in the key of E
He pronounced Hawaii “Hawaiah”


E
Talk about Hawaii
  F#7
I didn't know it was so grand
  B7
I picked me out a hula hula girl
   E       F#7        B7
Be fore my boat could land

E                       F#7B7 E
Everybody does it in Ha wa ii

G#7
She's got it here and she's got it there
    C#7
Her lips are red and her feet are bare
      F#7
She's shy on clothes but I don't care

      E                       F#7B7 E
Cause everybody does it in Ha wa ii
                      
          G#7
She's got two pretty legs with dimple knees
C#7
Two brown arms and they know how to squeeze
  F#7
A perfect form and I'm hard to please

    E                       F#7B7 E
But everybody does it in Ha wa ii

E
When I leave Hawaii
     F#7
When I leave old Waikiki
    B7
I'm going to take my hula hula girl
    E         F#7       B7
And bring her home with me

E                        F#7B7 E
Everybody does it in  Ha wa ii
 
G#7
She's got it here and she's got it there
    C#7
Her lips are red and her little ole' feet are bare
      F#7
She's shy on clothes but I don't care

      E                         F#7B7 E
Cause everybody does it in   Ha wa ii

G#7
Two pretty legs with dimple knees
C#7
Two brown arms and they know how to please
  F#7
A perfect form and I'm hard to please

    E                         F#7B7 E
But everybody does it in   Ha wa ii

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