The smell of hibiscus blooms Fragrance the beautiful evening From somewhere in the distance The strings of the ukulele can be heard Lone tropical girls dance to its beautiful melody And I begin to play my ukulele too And I too begin to dance On that beautiful evening When the sky had fallen asleep With a faint sunset in the west And the salty breezes blew Across each beautiful palm tree Such a beautiful evening I can see Only in the silver cord Of my mind's eye