I Wish They Didn't Mean Goodbye

I Wish They Didn't Mean Goodbye - Alfred Apaka

Goodbye goodbye

Oh why must we say goodbye

I've heard that word in every land

Keora te tura' the Polynesians say

Farewell dear friend

We'll meet another day

From far Japan sayonara' they cry

I wish they didn't mean goodbye

I hear 'au revoir' and long for gay Paree

In Rome 'arividerci they fondly say to me

As I sail from fair Hawaii I hear 'aloha oe'

Oh I wish they didn't mean goodbye

As I leave London town I hear their 'cheerio'

From Spain 'hasta mañana'

Adios' from Mexico

And Vienna's old refrain is a sad 'auf wiedersehen'

Oh I wish they didn't mean goodbye

Aloha oe I hear them sigh

But I wish they didn't mean goodbye