Hiva Afaa 'o Vaea - Maka Paea

[TamasiiTerefua]

malie malie 'ikai pe ke toe loi e tohele ia 'a e banjo!!

[manuokafoa]

Those musicians are from Houma and the dude playing the Banjo is Saia.

[jeffreybert45]

He sika e hema fakahihifo

Louloua 'a e matangi to

Kolongatata ke fakauoo

'O falala he faka'osi kako

'Ise'isa e kao mo tofua

Vilingia hoto kie taua

Kuo hola 'a e fanga i Lifuka

Tounoa e maka ko Loupua

[jeffreybert45]

Lelea e hoku 'ofa atu

Sia ko Kafoa 'alo 'i Talau

Tangi 'a e toa tu'u aki tau

He ko u fe'ofa'aki 'a kakau

Fasi pe sila tu'u 'i Manono

He fangumalingi 'i Vaha'akolo

Ne ngangatu 'o 'alaha 'i he loto

Kae tupulaki 'ofa i he moto

Ke faingata'a pe faingofua

Ha'apai tuku ho'o kaimu'a

[ariana817]

MALIE VAOTU'U!

[coconut318]

KOLONGATATA!!!

[islandCouture]

thanku jeffreybert45 for the story of the song malieeee lahi fkofa ogo koe feofaakiakakau kake pouli aa sii vaea tagata fofoga ofa malimali

tua ofa atu

[sthcrox]

looks like a band from ha'apai?

great banjo lead though.

[jeffreybert45]

The band is from Vaotu'u.The song is about the hurricane that strike Ha'apai in 1961.

The Governor of Ha'apai at the time who was Vaea ('Alipate).

The people of Ha'apai presented their polopolo (kahokaho yams) and gifts to the Late Queen on her 61st birthday at the Royal Palace on the 13th March, 1961.

They returned back to Ha'apai on the very next day and a hurricane blew up and the crew took refuge at the island of Ha'afeva, but their boat, Fanga-i-Lifuka, was lost.

[vaisioata42]

ouaaaa

malie kau tama mei he vaisioata

funga kele'amaka

v-town thats how we do it