I haere mai a Kupe te kaitoronui
I runga i te waka Matawhaorua
Ki Aotearoa te Ikanui a
Maui Tikitiki a Taranga
Me te Waipounamu i te tai tonga
Me te punga kei raro rā, ko Rakiura
I haere mai nō Hawaikinui
I runga i te waka
Matawhaorua
(Chorus)
Ko Kupe Te kaitoronui
Ko Kupe i runga i te waka
Matawhaorua
I whai atu ia i te taniwha (Hi!)
I patua i te tai o Raukawa (Ha!)
I rere ai te waka puta noa i ngā motu
He rangatira o ngā tai
Ka ingoatia ngā wāhi nei
Kia maumahara ki te kaitoronui e
I noho tonu ngā tamariki tokotoru
Haere tonu a te kaitoro ei e!
(Repeat chorus)
I hoki atu ia ki Hawaikinui
I runga i te waka Matawhaorua
I rere atu ia mai Ārai-te-Uru
E kore e hokia
Ka puta tana mokopuna
Ko Nukutāwhiti
He tohunga o te moana
Ka taka te wā, ka hoki mai rā
Ko Ngātokimatawhaorua ei e!
(Repeat chorus)
E ai ki tētahi kōrero
Ko Maupiti / Maurua te kainga
i hoki atu rā
E takoto tonu rā
Ngā kōiwi a te Kaitoro ei e!
(Repeat chorus)
Kupe the great discoverer came here
Aboard the vessel Matawhaorua
To Aotearoa, The great fish of
Maui Tikitiki a Taranga
And the Greenstone waters to the south
And the anchor stone, Rakiura below
He came from Hawaikinui
Aboard the vessel
Matawhaorua
(Chorus)
Kupe the great discoverer
Kupe aboard the vessel
Matawhaorua
He chased the taniwha
Which he killed in the Raukawa tides
He sailed his vessel all around the shores
Of Aotearoa, this chiefly vessel
He named places here in Aotearoa
In remembrance of his discoveries
His three children stayed
While he continued to explore
(Repeat chorus)
He returned to Hawaiki
Aboard the vessel Matawhaorua
Sailing out from ārai-te-uru
Never to return
His grandson was born
Nukutāwhiti
An expert of the oceans
As time went by the ocean vessel
Ngātokimatawhaorua returned
(Repeat chorus)
There is an oral history
That says that the island of Maupiti / Maurua
Is the home that was returned to
That the bones of the
Great discoverer Kupe still lie there
(Repeat chorus)
Te Manu - Lyrics
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1. Te Manu
2. Te Kaitoronui
3. Noho ake au
4. Ko Wai Koe?
5. AEIOU
6. he kakano ahau
7. Pipi tui
8. ka mea
9. e kore e hokia
10. e ko
Lead Vocals - Te Manea Teariki
Backing Vocals - Tangaroa Teariki
Te Kaitoronui
Karl Teariki