NEW  ZEALAND
KIDS' * SONG

Hiwi the Kiwi
Mark de Lacy, 1995

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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.




Hiwi the Kiwi

This is the lead song from the CD and songbook of children's entertainer "The Minstrel." Buy the CD and songbook.

Other songs include:

Willy Billy Fleece
Blaack
Copper Patch
Cooperation Cool
Slater Pie
From Rock to Roll to Rocket
and Harold's song

All of these songs are vigorously sung with lots of wild rhyming.

Mark de Lacy

Whangarei-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."

Some other NZ songs involving animals

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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