NZ Folksong * Maori Songs
This songlist links you to 120+ popular Maori songs with lyrics, tunes, translations, song history and composer information.
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Tiaho Mai Ra - NZ Folksong
In Maori creation mythology, all was Te Pō, in darkness, and then Ranginui and Papatūānuku were pushed apart by Tāne to create Te Ao-mārama for living creatures, leaving the rest of creation behind in darkness.
NZ Folk Song * Pokarekare Ana - lyrics - translations
This love song arose in Northland at the start of World War One, was sung at an army camp in Auckland, then taken to the East Cape and modified into an action song telling of Paraire Tomoana's courtship of Kuini Raerena. It is now known …
NZ Folk Song *Aue Te Aroha
Signature song of Māramatanga, a prophetic movement integrating traditional Maori spirituality with Christianity.
NZ Folk Song * E Papa (stick game)
sang when playing the Maori stick-game (ti rakau). Performers tap sticks and pass them to each other rhythmically.
Po Atarau / Haere Ra / Now is the Hour - LK * SONG
This was published in 1935, with the first verse of Maewa's version, a Christian version of the Ratana Te Iwi verse, and then the Po Atarau verse with a crying sea bird replacing the moonlit dream. 1. Now is the hour, when we must say goodbye. Soon you'll be sailing, far across the sea.
NZ Folk Song * Hoki Mai
Sep 25, 2001 · Henare Waitoa composed this song in Ruatoria in 1946 to welcome home survivors of the 28th Maori Battalion. Later, a happier, more lyrical party version evolved in Rotorua and was popularized by the Howard Morrison Quartet.
NZ Folk Song * A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree
NZ Folk Song * A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree. Maori songs - Christmas songs - Kiwi songs - Home. A great song for schools, or for singing in the car while you are all travelling back home to the coast for Christmas. The brightly illustrated book makes …
NZ Folk Song * Tutira Mai Nga Iwi
NZ Folk Song * Tutira Mai Nga Iwi. Kiwi Songs. Wi Huata wrote this song and taught it to his children whilst on a family gathering to Lake Tutira, north of Napier. He was explaining how the iwi came together here to support each other.