Meet Me in Hawaii

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A love song My dad would have written in 1968.

Lyrics

[Intro]
[Piano and Steel Guitar]

[Verse 1]
I opened up a Chase Manhattan account
Right here in Saigon, started keeping count
Every dollar over a hundred and a quarter saved
Every poker hand I won got laid away
The Reef Hotel runs twenty-something a night
That's a cheap price for something that feels right

[Chorus]
Meet me in Hawaii, Linda
Halfway cross this world
Fly out of Tulsa, darling
Let my arms find yours
I've been saving up every cent I've earned
For one week to hold everything I've learned to miss
Meet me in Hawaii, Linda
Oh, meet me there

[Verse 2]
I watched the colonel come back brown and rested
I watched the captains count the days invested
I told them — I got a woman worth the price
I'll buy her ticket right here, I don't need advice
315 dollars from an American bank
Worth every cold shower, every sandbag rank

[Chorus]
Meet me in Hawaii, Dearest
Halfway cross this world
Fly out of Tulsa, darling
Let my arms find yours
I've been saving up every cent I've earned
For one week to hold everything I've learned to miss
Meet me in Hawaii, Linda
Oh, meet me there

[Bridge]
I didn't write about what happened when she came
Some things are too private for a letter's frame
But you can feel it in the ones that came after
A lighter hand, a little more laughter

[Spoken - warm, quiet]
A week in Hawaii would be wonderful.
I am looking forward to a hot water bath, among other things.
Your birthday present — it will be glad to see you.

[Verse 3]
When it was over and I had to go
Back to Nam with 40 percent to go
I knew the last stretch would be the longest mile
But I had something warm to carry all the while

[Final Chorus]
I met you in Hawaii, Love
Halfway cross this world
You flew out of Tulsa, darling
And I found you there
I saved up every cent that I could earn
For one week to hold everything I'd learned to miss
We met there in Hawaii, Linda
And that was everything
That was everything

[Outro]
[Steel Guitar Solo, slow fade]
[End]

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