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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3
            This is a cleaned up version of other's I have seen. Hope it's helpful.
First Verse:
C
I packed my bags and bought myself a ticket
                              G7
For the land of the tall palm tree
                                C
Aloha Old Milwaukee, Hello Waikiki
I just stepped down from the airplane
                 F
When I heard her say
                     C
Waka waka nuka luka, waka waka nuka luka
G                  C   G7
Would you like a lei?  HEY!
 
Chorus:
C
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
              G7
Whisper in my ear
Kicka pooka maka wa wahine
                        C
Are the words I long to hear
Lay your coconut on my tiki
                           F
What the hecka mooka mooka dear
                      C    A
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
        D       G       C
Say the words I long to hear.
 
F   C   D   G   C
 
Second Verse:
C
It's a ukelele Honolulu sunset
                           G7
Listen to the grass skirts sway
Drinking rum from a pineapple
                C
Out on Honolulu Bay
The steel guitars all playing
                             F
While she's talking with her hands
                     C
Gimme gimme oka doka make a wish and I wanna polka
G                C  G7
Words I understand,
Chorus:
C
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
              G7
Whisper in my ear
Kicka pooka maka wa wahine
                        C
Are the words I long to hear
Lay your coconut on my tiki
                           F
What the hecka mooka mooka dear
                      C    A
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
        D       G       C
Say the words I long to hear.
 
F   C   D   G   C
 
Third Verse:
C
I boughta lota junka with my moola
                              G7
And sent it to the folks back home
I never had the chance to dance the hula
                      C
I guess I should have known
When you start talking to the sweet wahine
                         F
Walking in the pale moon light
                      C
Oka doka what a setta knocka rocka sis boom bocas
G                  C  G7
Hope I said it right, HEY!
Chorus:
C
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
              G7
Whisper in my ear
Kicka pooka maka wa wahine
                        C
Are the words I long to hear
Lay your coconut on my tiki
                           F
What the hecka mooka mooka dear
                      C    A
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
        D       G       C
Say the words I long to hear
F                     C    A
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
        D       G       C
Say the words I long to hear.
 
F   G   C …….Aloha 
        
                