He Takapau a​-​Iwi: Birthing​-​tales (2017)

by Piripi Whaanga Whanau

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1.
Moe 02:54
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Moe ana te pii me koe na te whakapaunga mahi e. He moenga putiputi tou kakaara i oti pai tou rere. Te pukumahi haere haere taraiwa mai i Tamaki. Tae moata mai ki Taupo-nui-a-Tia te take tinana puare. Inumia te waka oTiirari takina te waka Tiirara. He kawa tuanihinihi he kawa tuaranga tuara he kawa tuanihinihi he kawa tuarangaranga ra.
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Amenetia mai 02:02
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Amenetia mai e te raakai whiu . Whakatatamai te whaakama ki waho o te riu. Kei kora ko au, poro kore nei Kai tautoko. Tena te kawe hei A te hau rua o te wha ka makare atu mai Ngamotu hau kainga Te Taranakai Kei kora ko au, poro kore nei Kai tautoko. Tena te kawe hei
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Cousins 04:28
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Let me introduce the preacher man, Uncle Jack's Michael, Anne. His wife Saskia and Paddy too, Donna, Hana , Taita true Cousins breathing cousins groaning got together on our own. Cousins stacking one on one, Craic is flowing. O'Gormans home. We gave a cheer, stood up for that for Pat and Ellen for sticking at, each other and they stuck for life. Husband father mother wife Cousins etc........ Maree and David, Gail's clan, missing was Debra Ann. Mareeta,David, Kevin, Adrienne Craic is flowing Uncle Franks clan (David?) Cousins etc.... And then there is Miriam's mob, Teresa and Len they did the job. Pat and Owen couldn't come Kevin too still Kitty's home. Cousins .etc.... Pauline Catherine Simon too, Aunty Marie here's to you. Trisha, Kathleen, Bernadine got there late that's Eileen's team. Cousins etc..... Lastly as we go out strong, Rita and the Maori throng. KB Dette Philip Paul Michael's sick and that is all. Cousins breathing cousins groaning got together on our own. Cousins stacking one on one. O'Gormans home O'Gormans home O'Gormans home O'Gormans home.
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Cycle way 03:58
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Separated from my place to park, now a cycleway has come between us. User-pays ,roadrage did they mean us? I used to live on the Parade, outside my home the curb was laid, to which I said nothing shall come between us. Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison While retreating took my body for a walk, trying to bridge what'scomebetween us. Thinking brain, this age just for Gold Plus. Like velcro laid on the Parade, O please come on home the bed is made and snuggle up and sleep right in between us. Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison. (X 2) It's the tyrant in the Penthouse suite, it's the cycleway from Mars to Venus. When you're crossing look both ways, there'll be such fuss, separating from your drama queen, fellow travelers so extreme. Me and you inseparable, believe us. Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison. Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison.
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Feeding the ferry 03:23
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We come by a break in the rain, we come by train. Take the Ferry when you part, a break in the rain. sunny day outside, sunny in my heart. They say love's ego's possession, I don't know where to start. Maybe I'll just start with you, if you'll be my guide. Maybe I'll just end with you, if you take my side. Inside the arms of madness,open crossing past. The want to tell the story, a tune to hold it fast. It's a smoker's world no more, outlawed beyond the pale. I used to like that clean fresh taste, talk blown out on the trail. kinda like a cha cha cha, a yeah nah. Kinda like a la la la, got lost in the bar. I'm backin in the top of the south, That's what the captain said. I'm fronting up, I'm laying down, these tunes inside my head. Kinda like ......etc.....
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Fiddle Pat 02:51
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You're the show, the host there's more coming through the door. Harlequin twister, raising a blister. We're singing till we're ready and raw. Just thinking back, we were Fiddlepat, and busking opened up that door Woke up to 8 beats, chiming on that Carteron clock. Stumbled out to look at the deck, yesterdays wreck. I build em when I'm thinking a lot. Just thinking back ....etc Ain't no lie, it ain't no lie. Old Bugger Burns is gonna die. Hey babe it ain't no lie, it ain't no lie. Now you're moving away to Waverley, you're stacking up your books in the shed. But the friends who hang with you, stories that run through, lines that you'l keep in your head. Just thinking back......etc Just thinking back, we're still Fiddlepat and busking , we're still busking Ain't no lie it ain't no lie Ol Bugger Burns is gonna die. Hey babe it ain't no lie, it ain't no lie.
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Finding it hard 02:05
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Waking up all alone in the noonday sun, my head's in a mess and my feet undone. I'm wondering where we played last night, and if thefolks back home miss their native son, It's so hard, to make it on the road. Finding it hard, to make it one the road. Setting up all the gear, then pulling it down, the life of a roadie, the life of a clown. We waiting for the big one, she never came round. Just more one-nights and just more rundown, it's so hard, to make it on the road. Finding it hard, to make it one the road. It's so hard, to make it on the road.
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Hello hello 03:09
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I sip an american blend, yesterday at the surprising time, the host from upstairs was at the downstairs curtain shouting hello hello shouting hello hello I was brewing the wake-up blend, suitably decaffinated definitely for that slow high salute to the sun when in he burst all a flutter to find his techmate with hands full of wet wet moko wet moko definitely wet moko. No matter he said and promptly spilled his contents of wallets and protocols and more widgital digital hello hello hello hello He said the trading side could wait behind the surface exchange. My waking self lay on the mat streetching itself first this leg then that and back muscle memory liked to do it like that shouting hello hello hello hello The two talked on with an occasional reference to wet nappies truely a host with the most on this Pacific Coast who stepped over my legs and went back upstairs for toast shouting hello hello shouting hello hello shouting hello hello shouting hello hello
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Jesse 01:29
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Last night was a benefit concert for the fire service and the act got lost on the detour. While cornering in the dark, did realise it must be a different awesome sight in the daytime. The center was bedecked and lit with Christmas cheer And the small crowd eat from any hand prepared to play for free. What is this that opens its doors and rests on candlelit white folding chairs. Jesse your breakup song songs and clear good looks crossed over the generation gap. One table-full tapped snapped clapped their Muir Beach delight And you kept thanking us. I didn't care if your older brother had found fame in a TV series about chappy clothes. You sang "I'll be yours tonight"
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Little death 03:24
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Down the aisle/ walked between Separate paths, joined by dreams. Breathing in/ out of breath Rangi and Papa/ little death The little death/ inbetween Rangi and Papa/ us I mean He po he po/ darkness we fear We split apart/ ka awatea And so into / world of light of the knowing / day and night Children float / bye and bye Twixt mother earth / brother sky We gathered / haakari to feast the join / me to we Blessings flow / flowing still To children's children / ever will little death / reappear gone/ ka awatea bit by bit / dying is done As it is on earth / under the sun little death/ will reappear it's gone / ka awatea and bit by bit/ dying is done as it is on earth/ under the sun
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More of me 03:01
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I'm giving you a little more of me there's more to go around my universe expanding into middle ground. You're showing me , there's more of you to see, you're showing me around But our clothes are overflowing XL by the pound I'm giving you the rope you asked for way back when I was not around. Emotional voyaging, wind the clock back down. Forgiveness is that rope, it can be loosened and made so. But the hangman isn't hanging, you're free to go. Bum bum bum Ba dada dada dum etc I'm failing to observe, the niceties of time Need a patchup or a matchup good company and wine They clocked me doing 50, in a 40-year old zone. Kent Street circuit, cap and seat down , Oh will you take me home. Ba bum bum ba dada etc I'm showing through a newer part of me, it's bathing in the light No tan line, no more ban line, admission was the price. And you're coming for the me I could not see, kaapohia, I was blinded and I'm falling for that part of you too, so much of us to find. bum bum bum ba dada dada dada dum etc more of me, less of you (X 2)
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Morehu 04:39
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Got some light relief under my belt / to catch a thief. Say pill by mouth / say serotone sertraline / brands of home Lyrics written on the way Pae Upokotia kakariki My scraps laid on Pak n Save receipts and stored in my back page Chorus Anything you want / is anything you lack I'll take you in I'll take you back Oh this tale doesn't end I left my book out in the wind And out fluttered my little friend to nestle in to Dette's land end. Chorus I was forlorn to lose my fren. Thoughts written down might not come again So texted I to my little sis / for that scrap of paper, that hit and miss. Viola! Pete spotted it sprouting where my book had sit. This longish tune ,. this rather nice on Pal n Save, the lowest price. Chorus X 2 I offer this scrap x 2 I'll take you back.
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Multiplier 03:35
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At 8 years of age I remember Hotel Federal where I ate the butter thinking it was cheese. The coal-man carried on his back and dumped that 2 bob dollar sack, the thoughts and feelings falling as they please, into the box of my memories. Na na na na, na na na na Oh I had a different way of multiplying I told the nun I learned it Mercy-way. The numbers lined up 2 by 2 and underneath they added true. I took to maths, it made The Way and now I see I saw a different Way. I remember all too well mistakes and feelings, beat myself, forget the kiss the hug of feeling warm. And I want to go back home again to Taita town, where I was born, where I was born. Na na na na, na na na na Yes I've prowled the edges of coming and going, the little boy and places in-between. The ferry carried us along, the nuns a back-drop to this song Days up to this time and in-between. Now I remember all too well mistakes, can I forgive myself The kiss the hug of feeling warm and I am back home again, not far, where I was born, where I was born.
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Night sky 04:24
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Chorus Night sky blue and dark red I see a star looking at me. Night sky blue and dark red I see a star looking at me All I need is some space wwh my feet on the ground Writing in my book of wisdom swaying to my sound Chorus All I take is your time all I give you is mine sharing as the tuakana playing out the gift of rhyme Night sky blue and dark red I see the stars in my head Night sky blue and dark red, I see the stars in my head Chorus Night sky blue and dark red I see the stars in my head I see the stars in my head I see the stars in my head Kia ora Fern
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Nukuone 04:47
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Anei taku moteatea He pakiwaitara. No nehe ra te whakatau. He mana reanga Tuhono Taitokerau ki te Mahia pai Te tipihaere Kahungunu. Wahine Rongomai Na te whakapa oku tupuna He oati moemoe nei tenei tangata rongonui e pa te wahine Tetahi atu tupuna Te Rakaipaaka. Ko te whakamaru a Moumoukai he pa tewhatewha. Anei naaku te waiata he moemoea no tenei ao te kaitito e pa e pa e pa Anei anei taku mihi aaku tangi na ki te wai o tangata o nehe ra o nehe ra o nehe ra
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Off Limits 02:42
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There's a limit to this border darkness on the face of the deep. Set your face , get your affairs in order, permission dissolving what we could never keep. Witness this upon my word You witness this just like you never heard. There's a limit to this border parking on the face we seek. Set your face get your affairs in order, permission seeking vows we intend to keep. Promise this upon my word, a saving grace dissolving what we never heard There's a limit to this border, darkness on the face of the deep. Set your face, get your affairs in order saving grace dissolving what we never keep. Promise this upon my word, saving grace dissolving what we never heard.
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Rire rire 03:41
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He maara kai - te whakatoo Hua rakau - te whakatoo Nga taiapa - te whakaroa Haumie tike - tiike (X 2) Me te ki runga - on heaven's above Me te ki raro - on which we stand Me te ki waho - we're going out Me te ki roto - bring it on home Ka oti ka whakatau te hau Rire rire pai, ma rire (X 2) Ka nuku mai - i te Wairarapa I peketia mai - he taiapa Makere ana - nga herenga Ka puta ki too korua ao maarama Ka puta ki te ao - maarama maarama. Me te ki runga etc Te taha rori - e noho na He waahi pai - te whakataa Ngawari noa iho - tenei waiata Kua titongia -e maua (X 2) Me te ki runga etc...
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X is Y 03:47
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Coming right at you, coming right through I'm going to lay it on the line. But it weren't too clear, never heard the message there I just heard the word provider. And it was in that dream, I though that's what she means, I thought I was the tiger prowling down that trail, lipping off that rail and X is Y I am no wiser. Way back in days of old, cavemen were so bold. You made a kill and brought it home. It was all so clear, you got the message there, that's what men were, brute providers. Roles were cast for life, caveman and cavewife, Nobody thought they were the tiger. Just work detail, worked out on the trail, X is Y I am no wiser. Back from a run, Jim's words just like a cow of herds You can't recognise your shape. Bit by bit you've moved, new pasture hooved, and doubt is the grass you ate. When you're in the dark, the move to light is stark, it's instinctive but a frightner. You bring your 'heard' with you, it's just what cows do, X is Y I am no wiser. (Moo moo moo) I'd like to leave it there, I've slept on it but fear, this tune may walk right out the door. I say it's true for me, I was brought up that way, Dad was more than a provider. To spread the welcome mat, to break the mould is that, so much more than a provider. You mind your P's and Q's, you risk and sometimes lose, and X is Y I am no wiser. my X is Y I am no wiser and X is Y I am no wiser. (dumb dumb dum de dumb)
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Takapau 03:34
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Slipped out of my home town, the healing as done. Moko rongoa, headed up to my son. Maunga looks bigger and further today. Can't make it plainer, I see it this way. Ko Taita he takapau Moko rongoa haere ki te go turangawaewae, my place to go Point eight kaiako, the teacher is home. Hana, Wahine , teachers to the bone of contention, invention, put on the spot. Can't make it plainer, hear what you've got Ko Ngamotu, takapau hou. Birth learning moments, haere ki te go Learning moments haere ki te go. 49 on the front nine, Te Ngutu hook, It's all averaged out in the mana course book, when I turned for home, I put it out of my mind. 48 returning home, just one stroke behind "Let go unravel, thoughts in time the need to move on, like an assembly line, ki te whanau where feeding is best. Ukaipo, return to the breast." Ko Taita, he takapau Moko rongoa my place to go moko rongoa our place to go turangawaewae, haere ki te go

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More of my recent diary entry compositions with a few leftovers from overseas travel and earlier unrecorded family requests.

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released November 18, 2017

Piripi and Bernadette Whaanga, Hana Whaanga-Gilbert and Fern Gilbert - vocals.
Pete Rochford - bass

Robbie Duncan - sound magician.
Pete Gilbert - cover photo of the next generation with Fern (thumb n mouth), Anahera and Matthew on Piripi's puku.

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Piripi Whaanga Whanau New Zealand

Irish/NZ Maori
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Original songs of contemporary New Zealand/
Aotearoa told through the journeys of the Piripi Whaanga Whanau. ... more

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