I teach a brother and sister at Karate Job; the older brother is one of my special needs students, and his younger sister is quiet and fierce. Their grandparents moved to Southern California to be close to their grand-kids. We got to talking one day, and it came out that they are from a neighborhood close-by to where my dad grew up in Hawai’i. We chat every time they come in. Once I brought my ukulele in to practice before class, and the grandfather mentioned that he teaches Hawai’ian guitar, and is looking for students. Then he took my ukulele and played a little tune. He said he’d bring me a songbook, and he did.
It’s from the 1950’s, so it’s pretty beat-up and racist in some places, but the songs look simple so I thought I’d share.
Hawaiian War Chant
Honolulu Eyes
Lovely Hula Hands
Hula Rock-a-bye
My Sweetheart
When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop
The Old Plantation
Little Grass Shack
A Song of Old Hawaii
Hula Lullaby
Native Guitars
Drowsy Waters
King Kamehameha
On the Beach at Waikiki
Pagan Love Song
Dreamy Kalua
I Wonder Where My Hula Girl Has Gone
Across the Sea
Honolulu Moon
I've Found a Little Grass Skirt
For You a Lei
An Old Hawaiian Custom
Aloha Oe
I Want to Learn to Speak Hawaiian
Malihini Mele
My Waikiki Ukulele Girl
Naughty Hula Eyes
Coral Sea
The Beauty Hala
Maori Brown Eyes
Pretty Red Hibiscus
One, Two, Three, Four
Be Random, Be Clear 
This is very special. I belong to an ukulele club that plays and sings only Hawaiian music. About half the club are Hawaiians so I get a chance to play along with 50 – 60 others as they dance the hula and have a really good time every week. I have copied this off and I’m going to share it with them. I’ll bet that some of them have never heard some of these songs.
I’ve been playing the ukulele for some time now, but have only recently begun playing some (touristy) Hawaiian songs. And I like old stuff. Thank you for sharing!
The link for ukulele-songbook0003.jpg is missing. Thought you would like to know.
Wow! this is the greatest book ever! 😀 it’s sound a bit enthusiastic, but I’ve always loved those old tunes with that hawaiian vibe.
Just a thing: the page 3 is there only as a thumbnail, there is no hi-resolution picture!
could you add it, if you still have it?
I’m afraid I don’t have the book anymore. I was just borrowing it from a student’s grandfather several years ago.
The file is there all right, it’s just the link that’s missing, So writing the file url manually gives you the image: https://tigerlilytoph.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ukulele-songbook0003.jpg