One of our deepest, most endearing tributes to the beauty that is Samoa, this song is almost a prayer of gratitude and love for our islands.

La’u Samoa, e matalasi
Ua si’osi’omia e le sami
Atu mauga lanu lau ‘ava
Feoa’i fi afi a o ou tagata

{ CHORUS }

La’u Samoa la’u Samoa ea
Le Atua o lou fa’avae e moni lea
Le Ao o lou Malo tali’ilagi
Samoa ea i Malo aufa’atasi

Tu lata oe i le ekueta
E mafanafana fo’i ele vevela
So’o se mea aua le popole
E mamulu mai ile fa’amolemole

Malietoa ua Malotau
O nai upu fa’alae’iau
Sema ane sota taeao
Samoa lo ta va’a ia sao

This song appears on the album Samoa Matalasi by the Five Stars. Grab it on Amazon.

Most of the lyrics on this site were submitted by fans of Samoan music, so the words might not be entirely correct… and we may not know who originally composed the song.

Please help us to learn.

Please share any corrections or knowledge about this song in a comment below. Whatever we can verify, we will update in this post.

Ma le fa’aaloalo lava.

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Theo P

Anyone willing to post a translation of these lyrics? Please?

JJW

La’u Samoa, e matalasi….My beautiful Samoa
Ua si’osi’omia e le sami…Surrounded by the ocean
Atu mauga lanu lau ‘ava….Mountains purest green
Feoa’i fi afi a o ou tagata…Natives live happy and free

{ CHORUS }

La’u Samoa la’u Samoa ea….My Samoa my Samoa
Le Atua o lou fa’avae e moni lea…God is your true foundation
Le Ao o lou Malo tali’ilagi…The Head of your Kingdom from heaven
Samoa ea i Malo aufa’atasi….Samoa is in the United Nations

Tu lata oe i le ekueta…. Located near the equator
E mafanafana fo’i ele vevela…Warm but not so hot
So’o se mea aua le popole….In everything do not worry
E mamulu mai ile fa’amolemole…You’ll get them with please and pardon

Malietoa ua Malotau…Sweet Courage brave in war
O nai upu fa’alae’iau…Empowering words to encourage
Sema ane sota taeao….Device for our new dawn day
Samoa lo ta va’a ia sao….Samoa steers our ship through safe

JJW

Or Something lke that..lol

JJW

La’u Samoa, e matalasi….My beautiful Samoa
Ua si’osi’omia e le sami…Surrounded by the ocean
Atu mauga lanu lau ‘ava….Mountains purest green
Feoa’i fi afi a o ou tagata…Natives live happy and free

{ CHORUS }

La’u Samoa la’u Samoa ea….My Samoa my Samoa
Le Atua o lou fa’avae e moni lea…God is your true foundation
Le Ao o lou Malo tali’ilagi…The Head of your Kingdom from heaven
Samoa ea i Malo aufa’atasi….Samoa is in the United Nations

Tu lata oe i le ekueta…. Located near the equator
E mafanafana fo’i ele vevela…Warm but not so hot
So’o se mea aua le popole….In everything do not worry
E mamulu mai ile fa’amolemole…You’ll get them with please and pardon

Malietoa ua Malotau…Sweet Courage brave in war
O nai upu fa’alae’iau…Empowering words to encourage
Sema ane sota taeao….Device for our new dawn day
Samoa lo ta va’a ia sao….Samoa steers our ship through safe

JJW

Or Something lke that..lol

carmel

this another five star original

Raquel Nat

thats Tiamaa original song..they wrote it and performed it..the 5 star bought all the Tiamaaz songs

Lareina Meaole

I love it!

alicia

great party sing-along song!! lovn it!!

H@mO$tYL@H

Samoa Matalasi!! The Samoan original!
“FA’AVAE LE ATUA I SAMOA”

Islander

This is the most beautiful song i’ve ever heard!

I LOVE SAMOA!

BEAUTIFULGAL

SAMOA IS THE PLACE TO BE… SAMOANA SOUL

iiLOVEtheISLANDS.

ohemgee this is another song that everytime ihear it now iwanna cry. my heart goes out to all those that were hit by the tsunami and to everyone that lost family members :(, yous are all in our prayers, my family was fortunate enough not to lose anyone. but R.I.P to all those that did get washed away.GOD BLESS SAMOA!!!

Help!

HELP!!! URGENT!!

Hey, would anyone be able to direct me to an instrumental version of this song or the piano chords?? My Bestfriend is suspose to perform this 2morrow!

Osliigi...

Man, this is the most beautiful song,…

I Love it!!!

I LOVE SAMOA….

>>Samoa All Da Way<<

:)

hey, im samoan but i dont speak or understand any samoan. my dad does, but he hasnt taught us..
ANYWAYS, just wondering if anyone could translate this song into english? lol, i love it!

much appreciated,

🙂 xo

Jonas Levi

Ask your dad then?

Pule

You need to get like me uce I’m a 43yr old Samoan dude teaching myself the language through the net and other tools. It’s never too late sole

taubulk

hae im samoan and i can teach u samoan

taubulk

wassup to everyone and god bless u guyz even though i dnt know u guys but hu cares :D:D:L:B

[analena]

love it!!!!

lottybabes x

lovely sonq xx

malaesilia685

was just listening 2 this song on youtube now i see it on here. DA BST SONG EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i COULD LISTEN 2 IT FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAMOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ina

I love that song, it’s one of my fave samoan jamz!!! 🙂

OHFI x

LOVE thiss sonq , :))

x o x ,

Nesa

hey i would like to say , wow i love this sonq ay ,
it makes me cry whenever i listen to it … God Bless samoa ..

Loveyahh all …:)

Bonny

The Five Stars Forever!
Will always love there music. Legends.

onelove arie

i love this jam gangsta gangsta peace ofa atu alofa atu au domini iko

T. Maa

This is not a Five Star. They sang it sure but its a Tiamaa song !

pisah

ey wats up gee!!!!!!!!!……..this sng makes ke cry….:D

Inzzz

THIS IS A ACTUALLY A TIAMAA ORIGINAL!!! SORRY TO THOSE WHO THINK IT’S FIVE STARS!! lol

Leofo

Starting to see a trend where there is a lot of Samoans wanting to learn Samoan. I’m not amazing at it, but I’m pretty good at it ! And I’m willing to help anyone that wants to learn, him me up on leofow@hotmail.com with any questions or anything you want translated.. so on and so forth 🙂 This would be a good learning opportunity for you and a good revision for me 🙂 Just here to help.

Love this song btw 🙂

Leofo

* hit not him, lol sorry

Benjlayanajr

Thanks for the lyrics:D I just had to teach it to my 3rd grade students!!! 🙂

E.Kaitu'u

i need the lyrics for the song Samoa Matalasi, we just started our band and we want to play more songs from the pacific.

sonny

Hi I would love to put together a small band and sing all old samoan songs but have to change to a mordern style (acoustic) let me know if you like the idea. Email-saiaraisa@gmail.com

Malo!!

diane

love this song

Theo P

Anyone willing to post a translation of these lyrics? Please?

Nell

i miss Samoa with this song.. <3 <3 <3 🙂

James

Hey I’m a palagi and can help you learn Samoan :-0 from Arkansas

Raquel Nat

this is the Tiamaa original song..that sing by many people
Tiamaa own it

JJW

Hey Geek you are most welcome. could’ve done better but when one ask for a translation, then it is usually do it right there and then. LOL

Anyways I think there could be some people or perhaps some kids who goes on google and ruined that helpful function for others. never know..