Get Down!

You got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown We need to be the best in everything we do Like John Henry Wise, aloha ʻāina through and through Everything I say about him I swear to be true Literary athlete, preaching, teaching, paddling canoe Excelled on the field and excelled in the streets Loyal to the queen, Wise not afraid to speak Up to the treacherous thieves who held them bayonets Commit treason, join the republic He’d rather face death The revolution starts when you open your eyes Mai ka mole o Lehua from the roots we rise From the knowledge that the truth will always shatter the lies! E nā koa aloha ‘āina, the time has arrived You got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown Country boys rise up, we’re protecting the crown Defending our kingdom from those that wish to tear it down There was a day that my father called my brothers and me To take a stand to restore our country to our queen He spoke to us and said, go forth and fight for your mother’s land. 400 rebels by my side and they chose to take a stand Against cannon fire and overwhelming odds We alo ehuehu stand firm in the face of the storm Enduring on, pushing forward through hardship and pain Until my leadership and soldiers were captured and slain I was arrested, sent to prison and conditions was horrid My soldiers malnourished, degraded, beaten, and tortured It was then I raised a ruckus, because it made my heart sore I advocated for my people that were prisoners of war Nui kuʻu aloha no Hawaiʻi nei ʻO wau ʻo Lot Lane, remember the name! You got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown Nā wahine koa struggle for freedom and peace If ya gonna know poʻe aloha ʻāina, remember Emma Nawahī She helped to establish Ka ʻAhahui Hawaiʻi Aloha ʻĀina Hoʻomau Kūʻokoʻa Lede Launched the Kūʻē petitions and sparked a fire Established ka nūpepa - Ke Aloha ʻĀina If it’s for her majesty you know it’s gonna be done ʻOnipaʻa kākou till thy queendom come So don’t you ever forget a wāhine’s place is in the struggle We rise from the lepo, we’ve been sharpened by the rubble If it’s wāhine on the frontlines then there’s bound to be trouble E ola Nāwahī, mahalo no ka paio You got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to stand up Cause the time is now Got to get up So we can get, get down Got to rise up We taking back that crown We taking back that crown We taking back that crown We taking back that crown So we can get, get down!