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147: 98: 125:" as the national anthem. Liliʻuokalani wrote: "The king was present for the purpose of Criticising my new composition of both words and music, and was liberal in his commendations to me on my success. He admired not only the beauty of the music but spoke enthusiastically of the appropriate words, so well adapted to the air and to the purpose for which they were written. This remained in use as our national anthem for some twenty years or more when my brother composed the words 43: 142:"In the early years of the reign of Kamehameha V. he brought to my notice the fact that the Hawaiian people had no national air. Each nation, he said, but ours had its statement of patriotism and love of country in its own music; but we were using for that purpose on state occasions the time-honored British anthem, "God save the Queen." 154:
By July 1867, the song was printed and was available for purchase in Honolulu, becoming the first of her compositions ever published. This decidedly Christian song served as the national anthem for ten years until her brother, by that time reigning as
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An advertisement for the He Mele Lahui Hawaii that appeared in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser on June 8, 1867
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Na Mele O Hawaiʻi Nei: 101 Hawaiian Songs by Samuel H. Elbert, Noelani Mahoe.Page 47
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Royal Hawaiian Band recording (MP3 generated from MIDI) and PDF sheet music
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He Mele Lahui Hawaii

Kingdom of Hawaii
Lydia Kamakaʻeha Dominis
Lydia Kamakaʻeha Dominis

Liliʻuokalani
Kamehameha V
God Save the King
E Ola Ke Aliʻi Ke Akua
Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

King Kalākaua
Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī
Almighty Father
a nation
prayer
thy throne
the land
Hawaiʻi
Niʻihau
Compositions by Liliuokalani
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Mele Lahui Hawaii
Youtube: Liliuokalani He Mele Lahui Hawai'i
Royal Hawaiian Band recording (MP3 generated from MIDI) and PDF sheet music
E Ola Ke Alii Ke Akua
National Anthem

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