Top Maori songs last month

. . . . . . . . all with more than 1000 visitors

1. Ka Mate - All Black haka

2. Pokarekare Ana - love song
3. E Papa Waiari - stick game
4. Haere Mai - powhiri, greetings
5. Poi E - inspirational
6. E Ipo - love song
7. Hine E Hine - lullaby
8. E Ihowa Atua - National Anthem
9. Po Atarau - Now is the Hour
10. Ten Guitars - urban anthem

Song writers
Kingi Ihaka
Maewa Kaihau
Ruru Karaitiana
Dovey Katene-Horvath
Nei ka pae noa,
Derek Lardelli
ki Maukaha rāia!
Eddie Low
Dr Hirini Melbourne
Hinewehi Mohi
Tuta Nihoniho
Sir Apirana Ngata
Tuini Ngawai
Princess Te Rangi Pai
Pania Papa
Guide Bella Papakura
Ngoi Pewhairangi
Kingi Tahiwi
Hohepa Tamehana
Paraire Tomoana
Henare Waitoa
Singers
Ana Hato
Princess Iwa
Eddie Low
Princess Te Rangi Pai
Hinewehi Mohi
Howard Morrison
Prince Tui Teka
Deane Waretini Jr

Maori Dictionaries On-line

You can refer to four online Maori dictionaries, plus four Maori wordlists, all from one
page here. Papakupu
Details of Song Styles
Haka men's dance-poetry
All Black Haka
Army Haka - Ko Nga Waka

Waiata A Ringa action songs

History - Video

Poi twirling balls on strings

History - NEW

Tïtï Törea stick game songs

History - Old chant - E Papa
Songbooks
Waiata Maori (1992) T. H. Rikihana,
300+ Maori songs with translations, two volumes, photocopied school resource. Also
6 cassettes.

Maori songbook contents

This is an almost full list I have made of all the song titles in these Maori songbooks
and other older, out-of-print ones, (but still a bit muddled-up)
A Century Of Maori Song (2002) compiled by Keith Southern.
CDs also available.

The Maisy Rika Songbook is very similar, mostly reprints from A

Century of Maori Song.

He Koha, (2001)
Produced by Blossom Taewa. Twelve of our best-
known songs, also in karaoke, CD and video
formats.

Waiata Mai, 35 Maori Songs (1991, 2005) by

Kare Rapata Leathem. Well-known songs, useful
for leaning Maori, or for a first marae visit, with
translations and a CD.
Maori song reference material

Traditional Songs of the Maori. McLean & Orbell. Academic study of old chants.
Auckland University Press 2004 - currently out of print, ask at a public library.

Nga Moteatea, Sir Apirana Ngata

The source book of these old chants, recently reprinted, with CDs.

Ko Nga Moteatea, ed. Sir George Grey. Now readable on-line. It is the source of
Ngata's book.

CD recording hints
Alan Armstrong has some good advice for those recording a Maori concert CD.
Other Maori Song sites
 Te Ao Hou, the online re-issue of the 1950s-70s Maori magazine Waiata
St. Joseph's MGC: school songs
Ngati Ranginui: Waiata
Ministry of Education, Moteatea MP3s
Tarrangower School: Ruapehu
Wellington Kapahaka: Waiata
Editor's note

Kia ora koutou

Please forgive me for any errors here. If you can send me any corrections or
additions to be added here, I would be most grateful.

My hobby has been learning about songs of the rural

white New Zealand way of life. I started this NZ Folk
Song website to make information about these Pakeha
songs available to others.

But people kept e-mailing me to ask for information about

Mäori songs. So I started this page to help my visitors.
And it has grown to become my most visited page by far,
with 9000 visitors a month.

To find out about different versions of old Maori songs, I search the NZ National
Library's online database.

And I'm finding a wealth of information about waiata in all twenty years of
copies of Te Ao Hou that are online.

The most useful printed resource I have for words and translations is Waiata
Maori by the late Toby Rikihana. This is a compilation of about 300 waiata for
primary and secondary school teachers of te Reo Mäori. If you are in NZ, you
can hunt for it at your local library or Kohange Reo. Here is how you can buy it.

I also have these Maori songbooks too. If you would like me to hunt through
them for you, e-mail me.

John Archer
Ngati Tumatauenga
Waiouru

Songs in Maori

Full details - songwriters - when written - statistics

Akoako o te Rangi - love song

Ara! Ka Titiro - courting song
Au, E Ihu - WW2 soldiers' hymn
Arohaina Mai - WW2 farewell song
Ehara I Te Mea
E Ihowa Atua - National Anthem
E Ipo - love song
E Minaka Ana - Maori language pride
E Pa To Hau - lament for stolen land
E Pari Ra - lament
E Papa Waiari - tïtï törea
E Rere Taku Poi - poi
E Te Ariki
E Te Hokowhitu A Tü - 1940, for soldiers
E Te Iwi E - song of welcome
E Te Tamaiti - old hymn
E To Matou Matua - The Lord's Prayer
E Toru Nga Mea - communal hymn
E Tu, Stand Proud - rap protest
He Powhiri - chant of welcome
Haere Mai - Welcome, several versions
He Käkano ähau - a seed from Rangiatea
He Püru Taitama - a young bull
He Putiputi Koe/Pai - you are my flower
He Wawata - lament for a lost daughter
Hei Konei Ra - Freezing workers farewell
Hine E Hine - lullaby
Hitara Waha Huka - mocking Hitler
Hoea Rä Te Waka Nei 1917 supporting soldiers
Hoea Hoea Rä - 1940s canoe poi
Hoea Rä Ngä Waka - 1970s land march
Ho...ki Hoki - WW1 waiata a tängi
Hoki Mai - waiata a ringa
Hurihuri - tïtï törea
I Runga Nga Puke - WW1 waiata a ringa
Ka Mate - ancient haka
Ka Rü, Ka Rü - fishing song
Ka Waiata ki a Maria - himene - NEW
Kapa o Pango - new All Black haka
Ko Niu Tireni - 1924 All Black haka
Karanga - women's welcome chant
Karangatia Rä - waiata a ringa
Kia ora ra koutou - by Apirana Ngata
Kotahitanga - disco beat
Kotiro Maori - Rongomaiwahine
Koutou Katoa Ra
Ko Nga Waka - army haka
Kohu Auahi - Blue Smoke
Mäku e Mihi - Volcanics good wishes
Märie Te Pö - carol "Silent Night"
Matangi - steamship journeys
Ma Wai Ra - Who will be responsible?
Me He Manu Rere - waiata a ringa
Manini Waka - army haka
 Mihi Mai Ra - lets live together in love

Moe Mai Ra - Brahms lullaby

Moe Moe Mai Ra - Suo Gan lullaby

Nau mai, Piki mai - call for unity
Nga Iwi E - hold on to your inheritance
Ngoi Ngoi - praise for Poi-E's composer
Nga Waka
Pa Mai Te Reo Aroha
Paikea - the whale rider

Pakete Whero - a racy love affair

Papaki Mai
Po Atarau - Now is the Hour
Po! Po! - kumara origins
Poi-E - 1984 hit song
Pokarekare Ana - love song
Poropeihana - protesting prohibition
Poroporoaki - farewell blessing chant
Purea Nei - reasuring a blind student
Pürerehua - lullaby
Rimurimu - lament
Rona - the woman in the moon
Tahi Nei Taru Kino - love song
Tama Ngakau Marie funeral hymn
Tarakihi - on Kiri CD
Te Hokinga Mai - return of taonga
Te Kiri Ngutu - Old Ngati Porou haka
Te Kirimi - the cream song
Te Marama i te Po - love song
TeNgahuru's Lament - for his canoe - NEW
Te Ope Tuatahi - WWI anthem
Tenei Matou - concert party introduction
Te Piriti - bridge between cultures
Terina - Te Rina
Te Wai O Whanganui - river rights
Tihore mai - children's song
Tipirere - WW1 march
Toia Mai - haka pöwhiri
Tutira Mai Nga Iwi - Stand together!
Uhi Tai - army haka
Utaina Mai Ngä Waka - waiata pöwhiri
Waiata Poi - Mara Maori maiden brown
Whakaaria Mai - hymn
Wharikihia - 2003 award winner
Whati Whati To Hope - waiata a ringa

Songs in English
 Battle of the Waikato
Blue Smoke
Born of Greatness
E Tu, Stand Proud
Ha-ere Mai, Everything is Ka Pai
Maori Battalion
Matua Ned
My Old Man's an All Black
Now is the Hour
Oh Mum
Pania of the Reef
Pukeko in a Punga Tree

Songs of Home
Te Kooti
Ten Guitars
Totara Tree
Waiata Poi

Te Pataka Waiata

This is where I've gathered lyrics etc. for making proper webpages as more
information comes to hand.
Rummage around and take whatever is useful.

Songs for pre-schoolers

The words of these songs are all on one page:

Anei rä ngä mahi e
Haere mai te manuhiri
Haere rä e hine
He pipi mäu e hine

He rä whänau koa ki a koe Happy Bir...

He tangata pai rawa ia For He's a Jolly...
Hei tira tira
I ngä wä o mua rä
Kapokapo whetü iti
Kei hea te tuna?
Korikori
Kua riro C. A. T.
Mä is white
Mahunga, pakihiwi... Heads, shoulders..
Me kä harikoa koe

Motokä iti rawa e

Ngä Rä o Te Wiki
Oma räpeti,
One day a taniwha

Päpä hipi mangu

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