Boots Lupinui

Humming?

So I said, does it have lyrics?

And she said, oh, yes.

And she pulls out a notepad and a pencil and she starts trying to remember what they might have been.

Right about then, I started feeling like I was getting COVID.

And I think I was contracting it from this song.

But I recorded her humming on my phone, and I took her scratch paper lyrics home to write this song with now six days left.

Just like the first one, I was shooting for a song that would have been popular here back in the day in 1939 when he wrote it.

This one was easy.

This one wrote itself.

There was something about it that it felt like all I had to do was play it out loud and it would be real, and it was.

Just like with the first song, we recorded it in the bushes on the rock wall of a collo patch, and we got it all done on time.

On the last day of filming, Sunday afternoon,

The crew comes to me and they say, we got all the interview footage shot, we got all the song footage shot, we got all the B-roll shot, but we still have no idea what the story is that we're editing this footage into.

There's no way I could have storyboarded any of this.

Now this crew is leaving to go back to the airport to fly back to Oahu in a couple of hours and I still don't know what the story I'm telling is.

So now I'm in my head and I'm running through all the interview footage

trying to play it back and it hits me that I've overlooked the most important piece of this whole puzzle.

I took my eyes off of the spot where the trick was happening.

Both the ladies who gave me songs for this story, for this project, one at the beginning of the project and one at the end of the project, were both from the same old Kohala family.