Keali'i Reichel - Toad Song video free download

The song of a lonely toad in the night is a reminder that, lumpy and bumpy as he may be, there is someone out there to love him. Words and music by Puakea Noglemeier. Sung by Keali'i Reichel

Lyrics:

He kani kapalili i ka pôuliuli

...o `ke mele aloha a Poloka

E konikoni ana ke ki'owai

...lepo me ka leo heahea i ka ipo

`O ka hoku `imo`imo o ka lani lipolipo

...ke kukui e hô`ike mai nei

He mana`olana kona i ka ho`oniponipo

...me ka ipo ho`ohenoheno ana

Ua `oli`oli `o ia a ka pâ `olu`olu

...o ke kilikilihune o ka ua

I ho`olalilali i ka `ili pu`upu`u

.. ma ke kua `oma`oma'o ona

He kakali wale kona i ka lohe`ia aku

...o kana mele o ke aumoe

A `ume`ume `ia kahi hoa kikiko`ele

...e ka leo mikololohua

Mai kinohi loa mai a i kêia po

...ua lohe mau `ia kana mele

Ma na ki`owai lepo o na `âina like

...`ole a hiki `auane`i i `ane`i

Ma waho iki aku o ka lumi moe o `u

...i ke kulukulu o ke aumoe

Ha`ina ka puana no ka maka pu`upu`u

...i pili hala 'ole ke aloha

English translation:

A sound of wobble bobble in the glooming that's a looming

...it is the lovely crooning of the Bufo

A throbbing and a bobbing in the muddle of the puddle

...with a voice of invitation to the ipo

The winking and the blinking of a star up afar,

...is the light by which one might be seeing.

He's a foggin' in his noggin to be squeezin'

...and a teasin' with the one true love of his dreamin'.

He's a happy, snappy fellow in the touch

oh so mellow, of the wisty misty falling of the showers

Thar bring a slime shine to the lumpy,

...bumpy kind of the dark green skin on his shoulders

He'll just wait for a date til his song of the late

...night hour find the ear of his beloved

And brought for his selection is a mate of sweet perfection

...who is drawn by the eloquence bestowed

From the very start of time to the evening of this rhyme

...his crooning always found a willing ear

In the muddy bogs and strand of so many different lands

...eventually arriving even here

Just there, close outside of this room where I reside

...wide awake in the deepening of midnight

So let the tale be told of the lumpy, bumpy toad...that has never failed to win his lovely birthright.