Back again sharing my compositions. I have three wonderful daughters who are so talented in music. I recorded “Sweet Leilani,” “The Lurline Song,” and now a song for my third daughter llima. Her first name is Charisse. So here are the lyrics to the song as recorded on the CD “Full Moon Over Kaua‘i.:
Back again sharing my compositions. I have three wonderful daughters who are so talented in music. I recorded “Sweet Leilani,” “The Lurline Song,” and now a song for my third daughter llima. Her first name is Charisse. So here are the lyrics to the song as recorded on the CD “Full Moon Over Kaua‘i.:
Charisse
Dancing and singing pretty eyes gleaming my sweet Charisse, smiling to all and everyone’s loving her too.
I fell in love right from the start with my sweet Charisse, how can I tell her she took my heart away.
Chorus: Someday when she tells me she loves me, happy we will be forever more. Dancing and singing pretty eyes gleaming my sweet Charisse, smiling to all and everyone’s loving her too. I fell in love right from the start with my sweet Charisse, how can I tell she took my heart away, some day when she tells me she loves me, happy we will be forever more, dancing and singing pretty eyes gleaming my sweet Charisse, smiling to all and everyone’s loving her too, I fell in love right from the start with my sweet Charisse now I am happy she’s dancing with me today, now I am happy she’s dancing with me today.
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Larry Rivera has been an entertainer and song writer on Kaua‘i for more than six decades, and shares the stories behind his songs in “Lyrics of Aloha,” appearing once a month in the Sunday edition of The Garden Island. Win prizes and earn an entry in the Vacations Hawai‘i Vegas vacation for two drawing by listening to KONG radio the following Monday and Tuesday between 6 and 8 a.m. and taking part in a contest based on the column.
