A Rolf Harris type song with lots of rhyming, to be sung with plenty of gusto.

Hiwi the Kiwi went hunting one night, For grubs and bugs and berries to bite, He spied a spider beneath the moonlight, He sneaked up beside her and gave her a FRIGHT. The spider said Hiwi I knew you would see me, But I didn't hurry and hide, To eat me's a waste you won't like the taste, I'll make you feel yicky inside." ...Yech! I'm Hiwi the Kiwi I live in a nest I come out at night in the daytime I rest I live on the forest floor down by a creek My nostrils are found at the tip of my beak There's two large feet at the end of my legs And Wiki my wife lays extremely large eggs My wings are so short I no longer fly I live in New Zealand, I'm your kind of guy.

Here is a full length and better quality track of Hiwi the Kiwi. MP3

Hiwi the Kiwi

Paekakariki-based entertainer Mark de Lacy (aka The Minstrel) has been touring around New Zealand since 1990, becoming well-known at corporate dinners and at schools.

He is a singer/songwriter who also compares, performs comic floor shows, leads sing-a-longs. and plays dinner and dance music.

He is also well-known for his songwriting - satirical and serious - writing and performing material specific to an event or occasion. The Otago Regional Council commissioned his Albatross of Taiaroa celebrating 150 years of European settlement there. He has made television and radio appearances with his songs about the All Blacks, the Silver Ferns and our America's Cup win, as well as about topical issues such as the French nuclear protests.

Every Saturday afternoon, for more than eight years, he has sung a topical sports parody on Newstalk ZB. Visit The Minstrel website.

He is also a sports psychologist and has collaborated with Peter Belliss to publish "Think and play better bowls."

In English	and	In Maori
Dulcie and the Moa Our Homeland Aotearoa Opo the Dolphin Spider In The Bath Pukeko in a Ponga Tree Ghost Gulls Of Picton The Eel Song		Oma Räpeti One Day a Taniwha Tihore Mai Pürerehua He Püru Taitama Paikea Tarakihi

There are also NZ songs where the animals are farmed, hunted, stolen or eaten:- Popo, Davy Lowston, Soon May the Wellerman Come, Gutboard Blues, McKenzie's Ghost, Up the Mangapapa, Black Matai, Okaihau Express, She'll Be Right Mate, etc.

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This webpage was made in May 2007