Pearly Shells (Pupu A `O `Ewa) is an old Hawaiian song. The English lyrics were written by Webley Edwards and Leon Pober. Several people have performed it, including:
- Don Ho
- Burl Ives Sings Pearly Shells and Other Favorites
- The Melbourne Ukulele Kollective
- Trío los Panchos
In the 1970s, C&H Sugar used the melody for their jingle.
Famous quotes containing the words pearly and/or shells:
“What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live...?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)