From the serious to the not-so-serious we go. Every year, the grand finale for the holiday season is Robert Alex Anderson’s Mele Kalikimaka. My daughter and FooFoo are back, and for 2021, Aria does the kazoo solo:
This was our fourth year together. Mahalo for watching, and best wishes for a happy holiday season. May jolly Saint Nicholas bring you a musical instrument and perhaps lessons to go with it. Aloha!
After a fun debut, Aria joins me again for the grand finale of our Yuletide ukulele series, Robert Alex Anderson’s Mele Kalikimaka. There is a twist, however! For fun, I rewrote the lyrics for one verse and changed the song title to Rainy Kalikimaka, which is typical weather for Christmas in Oregon. For the record, it’s in the forecast this year.
Here are the revamped lyrics:
Rainy Kalikimaka is the thing to say
On a wet and stormy Christmas day
That’s the Northwest greeting that we send to you
From the land where Doug firs sway
Here we know that Christmas will be gray and cold
Some years we may get snow but that gets quickly old
Rainy Kalikimaka is the Northwest way
To say Merry Christmas to you
Hope you get a few laughs from this. Listening to me try to hit those higher notes is definitely giggle-worthy. I need to work on transposing! That said, we enjoyed making the video:
Mahalo for watching us do songs for a third year in a row. May you have enough malasadas and shave ice to satisfy your sweet tooth…and spike your blood sugar. Ha! Mele Kalikimaka and best wishes this holiday season!
The greeting cards have all been sent, and we’ve arrived at the finale of this year’s Yuletide ukulele concert. Of course it is Robert Alex Anderson’s Mele Kalikimaka. Lisa even joined us for this round:
Mahalo for watching us this season! May Santa bring you malasadas, too. Happy holidays!