I can't help with the lyrics, but I recorded a version of the song with the Bowles Brothers in London in 1977. Brian Bowles sang the Hawaiian words, simply ending the last line with '....Hawaiian cowboy'. I have no idea where the song comes from, or how they discovered it.

I used my ZB for the session, but the nearest thing anyone could come up with as an 'appropriate steel guitar' for the video was a Fender Stringmaster! The track appeared on an album entitled 'Roger Buys a Fridge' (!), and they paid me for an extra 'session' during which they photographed me pushing a 'fridge on a hand-truck around Camden Town; they said they wanted a 'real Roger' for the sleeve.

I must look for that LP - I bet I still have it somewhere....

Thanks for the reminder!