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Whakaropiropi
05:09
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Hui rauna to titi haere,
ta mataou mahi i a matou.
Te wareware.
Ka inumia to ataahua,
kawarewaretiai oku awangawanga.
E ki ana te Paipera, ko te rawe of the wahine na,
kei runga i nga rupe ,
e hine
whakaropiropi ai.
Ka peka haere maua,
ki te whai ki te whai i te tikanga,
o te po rereke,
o te putiputi raweke.
i tutaki te kaupapa,
i te mea ra
ka inumia to ataahua
Ka warewaretia aku awangawanga
E ki ana te Paipera kote raw of the wahine na,
kei runga i nga rupe ra
Whakaropiropi ai (x2) to kakama,
Whakaropiropi ataahua,
tpo kanaikani to kakama,
ka inumia to ataahua,
huri rauna huri ra
E ki e ki ko te rawe of the wahine
kei runga rawa i nga rupe nga rupe ra
Ko tehea rupe,nga mea, nga mea
To titihaere
ta matou mahi i a matou , te wareware
Kainumia to ataahua
ka warewaretia aku awangawanga
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Ohaaki
04:21
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Here’s how I remember Shai’s first birthday.
“Sitting in dad’s garden eating pebbles one by one, while overhead the jets roar down the road. He ohaaki he ohaaki. Counting out my first year, hold the joy, forget the fear. You have yourselves to thank, your well- meaning brought me here.
And all was well, he ohaaki, all is well, he ohaaki, all will be, will be, well.”
Ohaaki (from CD Toops Loops 2003)
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Daddys Song
06:25
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Daddy’s song (Sydney 2003)
“I did not know who you really were. The man with the rat tat tat of the kete flax bag. In the darkness of the night, or the balla-looloos, ‘What have we here?’
(Chorus)
We've come a long way now
just you and me.
daddy and daughter
a class act team.
The friend, Id never dreamed you'd be.
The man who put St Benedict’s on the map, cycling to and fro a school that learned Whaanga’s have different rules. So make way for us or we’ll find a groove, and chip away at it, till you’re sorry that you didn’t make room.
(Chorus)
Come a long way now, just you and me. Daddy and daughter, a class act team. You were the friend, I never dreamed you’d be.”
Farmer, no Whaanga, you know, the harbour
from whence our people came waka-fied,
Human toe cat's paw, that's how we got Taupo,
encouragement to share our knowledge with all.
(Chorus)
Little time soldier, we made him march every night,
hear you put us to sleep with your doorway delights.
Shared your lungs, breathed in us the song
that I'm eternally grateful for.
Loved discipline, sometimes too harsh,
but enough for me to go on, ensuring I'm a mummy who'll last.
Times changed when I was only a decade, grew up fast,
cause you needed me and to move on from your past.
The daddy I never knew grew into a flower, not overnight.
But good things take time just like our sharing of fine and cheap wines.
Thank goodness for change and life's pains,
cause without that past I wouldn't know you today.
(Chorus
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81 Bok (revisited)
06:43
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Foot Blues (revisited)
05:08
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Upoko Blues (revisited)
04:03
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Whaanga (revisited)
03:17
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Piripi Whaanga Whanau New Zealand
Irish/NZ Maori
leprechauns/
mischief makers ...a family of musicians and singers from down in the
Pacific.
Original songs of contemporary New Zealand/
Aotearoa told through the journeys of the Piripi Whaanga Whanau.
... more
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