NEW*ZEALAND
FO
*LK * SONG
*
Welcome to these 400+  pages for
home-made songs about life in New Zealand

March 2024   View the cellphone version   Email me, John Archer


  FIND A SONG
Pakeha Songs
Maori Songs
School Projects
John Archer's Songs
Playground rhymes
Train Songs
Tramping Songs
Sea Shanties
Podcasts
Worsfold Collection
NZ Celtic
NZ Christmas Songs
Song Scrapbook
Recordings
Song Books
ABC song files
Folk song quiz

  WRITE A SONG 
Getting started
Tutorials
Word-finding aids
Historical archives
Maori words

  SINGING THESE SONGS 
How others started
Folk clubs
Festivals
Performers
KiwiFolk
Expat folkies
Outstanding folkies

  FOLK INFORMATION
The Folk Process in NZ
Busking for fun & money

Your homemade CD
Performing when unwell
Enter the RIANZ awards
Collecting NZ folk songs
Mangamahu, my village
Merv's Mangamahu yarns
An old gunner's ballads
Waiouru History
The Convent Kid 1950
Odds & Ends
Counter, started Jan 2024


Here's your fishing map
for catching regional songs



    Get Maui to haul up a song for you,
                  from your own local area.







TOP KIWI SONGS

LATEST BALLADS

LATEST WAIATA

TOP MAORI SONGS




Pillows of The Dead

The Tangiwai Disaster


Wellerman

offshore whaling epic


Don't Dream
It's Over



Damn the Dam

cried the fantail


Farewell to the Gold

that never I found


Taumarunui onthe MTL

took me on as fireman


Minnie Dean

baby farmer


Dance, dance, dance
to my
Ten Guitars


Pretty Girl
Can I Take You Home


Spider in the Bath

marooned spider


Gin & Raspberry

Cardrona gold mine


Love in a Fowlhouse

with a pretty little hen


Blue Smoke

goes drifting by


She'll Be Right Mate

  Don't worry mate!



The Talking Dog

marry in haste, and...


Tank Yank from
the West Bank



Trickle Down
Neo-liberal political theft


Hurricane Rider
saved by Westport coal


Five For a Bob
an old rabbiter's song


WW1 knitting songs
to stop Trench Foot


Fixin' To Drown

Cyclone Gabrielle


Putin, the Rich Dude

invading Ukraine


Half-way down
Dominion Road



The Late Great
Planet Earth



The Lost Chinaman
S&R celebration 1911


BIG NORM
our most-loved PM


Me & Convoy 22
protest at the Beehive


Bert's Biplane
to Franz by Fox Moth

 










 




Isa Lei

Farewell to Paradise


Fa'ama'i

1918 Samoan pandemic


He Aka Kei Taku Uma

young new Maori MP


Tiramarama Mai

Learning Te Reo


Poia Atu Taku Poi

Erenora's suitors


He Korōria
Ratana's core principles


Potiki o Wharaurangi

Whanganui oriori


  Kai Tangata

Destroy your enemy!


Toi Tu Te Hoe !
steering the Aotea


Tofa My Feleni

Farewell to rescued sailors


Ko Uhia Mai

the Black Ferns' haka


Kiwi Weka

Romance with US Marines


Pinepine Te Kura

healing with seafood







Tutira Mai Nga Iwi

line up all together


E Te Iwi E

the land is shaking


Purea Nei

Fly O free spirit !


Tiaho Mai Ra

a light in the dark


Ka Pioioi

Welcome home!


Whakataka Te Hau

Hopeful kakakia


He Kakano Ahau

I'm a seed from Rangiatea


Whakaaria Mai

Sir Howard Morrison


Tai Aroha

love is a bubbling spring


E Minaka Ana

learn to speak Maori!



He Honore

sung at powhiri


Tika Tonu

show integrity!


Pokarekare Ana

WW1 soldier's song


Ka Waiata ki a Maria

the sacredness of women