Eli-eli, kau mai!
Ma ka holo uka, ma ka holo kai.
Eli-eli kapu, eli-eli noa!
Ua noa ka aina a ke Akua!
TRANSLATION
The Woman comes forth from the Pit,
Forth from the river with yellow tide,
From the fissured head of Kane,
Kane-apua, the cheater of death,
Presides o’er his much-thronged sandy plain: