Song Help Request He Aloha Ku'u Ipo (Beloved Is My Sweetheart)- by Mary Pukui & Maddy Lam

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Can anyone help me out with the chords to this song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_x5GixoH9A

This guy is soo.... ugh... good.
I'm pretty sure the rest of you would love to know how to sing/play this ;].

(Oh, and if possible, the complicated strumming/fillers as well =]. Mahaloz)
 
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Basically the chords are F, G7, C7. There's also a Bbm he uses. When playing the C7, it's alternately released and the C string 2nd fret is depressed. The same thing is happening on the G7 chord, the A string is released. I think it's on every other strum when that particular chord is used.

He Aloha Ku`u Ipo (Beloved Is My Sweetheart)
Mary Kawena Pukui & Maddy Lam

He aloha ku`u ipo ku`u hoapili
Ke kâunu mole pa`a i ka pu`uwai

Ua like nô `oe me ka lokelani
I kilipohe i i ka ua kakahiaka

Ho`oipo ke `ala noho i ka poli
He waiwai nui `ia na ka mana`o

`O `oe â`o wau ka i kui like
I ka lei mae`ole a ke aloha

Ha`ina `ia mai ana ka puana
Ke kaunu mole pa`a i ka pu`uwai

The English translation

Beloved is my sweetheart, my close companion
For whom the thrill of love is deep in my heart.

You are like the Hawaiian rose
Beautifully formed and dewy in the morning rain.

I woo the sweetness I hold to my bosom
A great treasure to my mind

You and I are the ones who are strung together
Like an unfading garland of love

The story is told
The thrill of love deep in my heart.
 
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