"Be Happy" from Hawaiian Honeymoon by Mary Hampton

"Be Happy" is the translation of a popular Hawaiian saying... A vignette of a charismatic young Hawaiian sailor in shorts and dixie cap - he effortlessly walks up a palm tree and waves at the camera with his hat from the top - he walks down the palm tree, sticking one leg out behind him on his way - he is back on the ground taking a bow and doing a little hula move, the camera shakes with the filmer's laughter - he is scooping up the delighted toddler of an obliging hotel guest in his arms as he walks towards the camera, waving absurdly - he is at the beach confidently heading out to the ocean on his surfboard - the sequence ends with a small child in a bonnet, sitting in the shallows and offering up a shell to its mother.

Mary makes songs and music and has performed for audiences great and small across the UK, mainland Europe, America and beyond.
Her influences include: Baudelaire, The Muppets, Anne Briggs, J.S. Bach, Bob Dylan, the old songs +++