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This Māori Made Easy set of lessons accompanies the book by the same name written by Scotty Morrison.

These lessons are best used with the Māori Made Easy book.  You can find out more info on the www.maorilanguage.net website

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This Māori Made Easy set of lessons accompanies the book by the same name written by Scotty Morrison. These lessons are best used with the Māori Made Easy bo...

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Learn our community song

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Try to learn and sound out Kei te pehea koe?

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Try to learn and sound out Kei te pehea koe?

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The top 20

Mōteatea

- Takitimu escapes storm.

Waiata for pre-schoolers

Song writers

Singers

You can refer to 11 online Maori and Polynesian dictionaries HERE

Or enter a Maori or English word below.

Maori song reference material

Maori songbook contents.
This is a list I have made of all the song titles in the Maori songbook below and other older songbooks.

Waiata Maori (1992)

by T. H. Rikihana.
300+ Maori songs with translations.
Two photocopied volumes plus 6 CDs.

A powerpoint sequence showing how songs that both races could sing together helped to unite us, during and after WWI.

Souvenir Program - Ngarimu VC Investiture, Ruatoria, 6 October 1943. This is a true taonga, with many old waiata and haka fully described and translated HERE. There are also sound files from that day HERE.

Other Maori/Polynesian Song sites

You can help NZ Folksong

1. Help improve this website's content - check these lyrics and translations for accuracy - I'm a language translator, not a native speaker of Maori.

2. Send me the lyrics and background details of other well-known songs. E-mail me.

3. Comments, questions, criticism, suggestions, song clips, lyrics, photos? Put them on our Facebook page.

Editor's note

Kia ora koutou

I've just turned 81 and covid has not caught me yet. But if this website disappears after I eventually die, you can find a copy of it on the Web Archive. (June 2022)

My 1980s-90s hobby was learning about songs of the rural white New Zealand way of life. I started this NZ Folk Song website in 1998 to make information about these Pakeha songs available to others.

But people kept e-mailing me to ask for information about Māori songs as well. So I started this page to help my visitors. And it has grown to become my most visited page by far, more than 2000 times each week.

To find out about different versions of old Maori songs, I use Google to search all the 19th century Maori documents that are now on the internet, and I also use the NZ National Library's online music catalogue.

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 isWaiata Maori by the late Toby Rikihana. This is a compilation of about 300 waiata for primary and secondary school teachers of te Reo Māori. If you are in NZ, you can hunt for it at your local library or Kohanga Reo. Here is how you can buy it.

And recently I have bought all 4 volumes of Apirana Ngata's Nga Moteatea.

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
Ohakune

Songs in Maori

Full details - songwriters -dates - stats

Aio Ki Te Aorangi - a hymn to Mother Earth

Akoako o te Rangi - love song

Anei ko Hone Heke e - the Flagstaff War

Ara! Ka Titiro - courting song

Arohaina Mai - WW2 farewell song
Atu i te Uenuku - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Au, E Ihu - WW2 soldiers' hymn

Aue Mama Aue Papa - WW2 soldier's song

Awhi Reinga - Air NZ TV advert

E Ihowa Atua - National Anthem

E Ipo - love song

E Kiwi E - Support for 28th Maori Battalion

E Ko Te Tui - heralding a new dawn

E Kore Au E Ngaro - I'll not forget my origins

E Noho Ana Au - tour of Ngati Ranginui lands

E Noho E Rata - 1917 anti-war song

E Noho Tuheitia - Kingitanga

E Pa To Hau - lament for stolen land

E Pari Ra - lament

E Papa Waiari - stick game

E Te Hokowhitu A Tū - 1940, for soldiers

E Te Iwi E - song of welcome

E To Matou Matua - The Lord's Prayer

E Toru Nga Mea - communal hymn

E Tu, Stand Proud - rap protest

E Waka E - Taranaki's Rima Whakarua

Ehara I Te Mea - children's song for powhiri

Ei Tākiri Mai - 1880s rugby song

Haere Mai - Welcome, several versions

He Honore - often sung at powhiri

He Kākano Ahau - a seed from Rangiatea

He Kau Rā - mocking land-eating Pakeha

He Kōroria Hareruia - Ratana fundamentals

He Putiputi Koe/Pai - you are my flower

He Tangi te Kiwi - waka portaging chant

He Wawata - lament for a lost daughter

Hei Konei Ra - Freezing workers farewell

Hikurangi - with Maui's waka on its summit

Hine E Hine - lullaby

Hinemoa - tune for long poi

Hitara Waha Huka - mocking Hitler

Hoea Rā Te Waka Nei - 1917 supporting soldiers

Hoea Hoea Rā - 1940s canoe poi

Hoea Rā Ngā Waka - 1970s land march

Ho...ki Hoki - WW1 waiata a tāngi

Hoki Mai - waiata a ringa

Hurihuri - tītī tōrea

I Runga Nga Puke - WW1 waiata a ringa

Ka Eke Ki Wairaka - lovers separated

Ka Mate - ancient haka

Ka Panapana woman's haka

Ka Piata te Wairua - your shining spirit

Ka Pioioi - a lively welcome back home

Ka Rū, Ka Rū - fishing song

Kai Tangata - destroy your enemy!

Ka Waiata ki a Maria - himene

Kaore he Pouri i Aotearoa- no depression in NZ

1st Kaore Hoki te Mānukanuka
- 1871 call to unite and rebuild

2nd Kaore Hoki te Mānukanuka
- 1881 - Stop Pakeha land theft!

Kaore te Aroha Mohukihuki ana
- an old love song

Kaore te Aroha e Huri Runga Ra
- longing for northern iwi

Kapa o Pango - new All Black haka

Karanga Karanga - join the performance

Karangatia Rā - waiata a ringa

Kia Kaha Nga Iwi - strength for young Maori

Kia Ora Ra Koutou - for returning soldiers

Kīkō Kīkō - birdcalls' guiding messages

Kiwi Weka - wartime love with US soldiers

Ko Niu Tireni - 1924 All Black haka

Kotahitanga - disco beat

Kotiro Maori E - Rongomaiwahine

Kotiro Maori - Rotorua tourist poi

Koutou Katoa Ra - funeral hymn

Ko Mātou - touching Maori treasures

Kohu Auahi - Blue Smoke

Kua Tae Mai Nei Mātou- Tuwharetoa arise!

Ma Wai Ra - Who will be responsible?

Ma Whakaiti Tatou - let us be humble

Mainstream NZ Songs - sung in Te Reo

Mai Nga Ra o Mua - women's hockey champs

Māku e Mihi - Volcanics good wishes

Māku Ra Pea - I will guide you

Manini Waka - army haka

Manu Tiria - ancient kumara-planting chant

Mārie Te Pō - carol "Silent Night"

Matangi - steamship journeys

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

Nga Puawai o Ngapuhi - Blossoming lives

Ngā Tai o Honipaka - Ngati Toa leave Kawhia

Nga Tamariki o te Kohu children of the mist

Nga Whare Pa - Open wide your doors

Ngoi Ngoi - praise for Poi-E's composer

Onioni - moteatea with sexuality

Pa Mai Te Reo Aroha

Paikea - the whale rider

Pakete Whero - a racy love affair

2nd Pinepine te Kura Te Kooti and betrayers

Po Atarau - Now is the Hour

Po! Po! - kumara origins

Poi-E - 1984 hit song

Pokarekare Ana - love song

Poropeihana - protesting prohibition

Pounamu Rama Nei - It's fun drinking rum!

Purea Nei - Fly, oh free spirit !

Pureora - anti-logging protest

Pūrerehua - lullaby

Rimurimu - lament

Rona - the woman in the moon

Rū Ana Te Whenua - thrash tribute to Gate Pa

Ruawharo - the tohunga of the Takitimu

Ruia Ruia like Godwits, you achieve impossible

Tahi Nei Taru Kino - love song

Tai Aroha - love is like a gushing spring of water

Takawirihanga - the whakapapa of the poi

Taku Toki - Ancient greenstone chant

Tama Ngakau Marie - funeral hymn

Tangaroa Whakamautai whales his escorts

Tapu Te Pō - Oh Holy Night.....

Tangihia - young people's cultural request

Tarakihi - the cicada - on Kiri CD

- only in my dreamsTaumarumaru!

Tauranga Moana - taonga of Ngati Ranginui

Tangihia - young people's cultural request

Te Hokinga Mai - return of taonga

Te Kaianga Kupu - Home Sweet Home

Te Kiri Ngutu - Old Ngati Porou haka

Te Kirimi - the cream song

Te Manu Titi - mutton-birding on Stewart Is

Te Marama i te Po - love song

Te Matuku i Hea? - Where's the bittern?

Te Ngahuru's Lament - for his canoe

Te Ope Tuatahi - WWI anthem

Te Tai o Kawhia - farewell to Edenic harbour home

Te Wai O Whanganui - unite to regain river rights

Tenei Matou - concert party introduction

Terina - Te Rina

- twirling poi draws us togetherTerina Pōmare

Tiaho Mai Ra - a sister's love

Tika Tonu - integrity

Tihore Mai Te Rangi - Rain, rain, go away

Timatanga - rugby haka

Tīrama Mai - Rongomaiwahine

Tō Aroha he Karere - Matariki

- on the Toi Tū Te Hoe !Aotea's steering oar

Toia Mai - haka pōwhiri

Toia Mai Te Waka Nei - Treaty of Waitangi

Toia Tainui Tapotu - Launching of voyaging waka

Toia Toia Mai Ra - symbolic waka-hauling

Tua Tua Koi Ranginui - for storms at sea

Tukua Ahau - Sir Howard's love song

Turongo - Ngati Raukawa origins

Turou Whakataha - psychotherapeutic chant

Tutira Mai Nga Iwi - Stand together!

Uhi Tai - army haka

- Ngati Porou and Uhi Mai Koia Arawa

Utaina Mai - concert entrance item

Waiata Poi - Mara Maori maiden proud

Wai-aroha - love's like being swept down a river

Wairua o te Puna - The spirit is bubbling up

Whakaaria Mai - hymn

Whakaipuipu - lament for Ngoi Ngoi

Whakataka te Hou - karakia to cope with storms

Whakatoria Mai - Once Were Warriors

Wharikihia - 2003 award winner

Songs in English (and Samoan and Korean)

Battle of the Waikato

Big Aroha - That's my tikanga!

Blue Smoke

Born of Greatness - He Kakano Ahau

Cheryl Moana Marie

E Tu, Stand Proud

French Letter - Mururoa nuclear tests

Ha-ere Mai ...everything is Ka Pai

Maori Battalion ...march to victory!

Matua Ned

My Old Man's an All Black

Now is the Hour

Oh Mum ...I love you, yes I do

Pania of the Reef

Pukeko in a Punga Tree

Rolling Wheels Across the Desert ...WW2

Rua Kenana Tuhoe prophet

Songs of Home

Te Kooti

Ten Guitars

Samoan anthemTofa My Feleni

Totara Tree

Under the Sun 1960s protest song

Waiata Poi Mara, Maori maiden proud

We'll have a Maori Hangi Tonight

Whanganui ...where the Aitch sounds fine

What A Dopey Gang Tuini's shearing gang

Yeon-Ga Korean version of Pokarekare Ana

Folk Stories

East Coast versionKupe & Wheki evil octopus chased to Aotearoa
Haunui & Wairaka

Te Pataka Waiata

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

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