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Pre-European life


Toi Tu Te Hoe! (steering toward Aotearoa)  - Tua Tua Koi Ranginui (a storm at sea) - Te Matuku i Hea? (guard birds) - He Tangi te Kiwi (portaging)Ruia Ruia (godwits) - Taku Toki (greenstone) - Turou Whakataha (psychotherapy) - Pinepine Te Kura (medical training) - Kaore Mohukihuki (desire) - Nga Tai o Kawhia (farewell to paradise) - He Aha Ra Te Manu (psychotherapy) - Kai Tangata (warfare)
Sealing, Whaling

Po! Po! - Davy Lowston - Blood Red Roses - Come All You Tonguers  - Beautiful Coast of NZ - Ko'rareka - Soon May the Wellerman Come - I Only Spoke Portuguese - Across The Line - The Philomena D - Seal Children - O'Brien and The Whale
Gold mining

Gin & Raspberry - Bright Fine Gold - By the Dry Cardrona - Farewell to the Gold - Hills of Coromandel - Kauwara Gold - Stable Lad - Packing My Things - The Close Shave - Looking for the Yeller -Digger's Farewell
Colonial land wars

E Pa Te Hau - He Kau Ra - Hine E Hine - Hoea Ra Nga Waka - Ra Ana Te Whenua - Battle of the Waikato - E Tu Stand Proud  - Jackie's Song
Maori King Movement Turongo - Tui Tuia - He Kau Ra - E Noho E Rata/Ata/Tuheihia 
Te Kooti
Kaore Hoki Te Manukanuka - Takato Rawa Iho (modified) - Pinepine Te Kura (modified) - Military Reports - Engari Te Titi - Hunting Te Kooti
Gum digging Farewell to the Gumfields - Black Swans - Apple Pickers' Ball -
The Old Gum-diggers' Bar - Bohemian Polka
Back-country settlers

Dulcie and the Moa - MacKenzie - The Talking Dog - Hakaru Races - Mihiwaka - Stable Lad - Scrub and Blackberry - Rainbird In the Tea-tree - Barb Wire Annie - Down the Hall on a Saturday Night - Eel Song - Russian Jack - The Lost Chinaman - The Waipu Settlers - Mail Coach Line - Bert's Biplane
Coastal sailing

Tua Tua Koi Ranginui  - Toia Mai Te Waka - He Tangi te Kiwi - Ngahuru's Lament for his Waka - The Ship the Buffalo - The Orpheus - Auckland to the Bluff - 65-ton Hooker - The Rena - Crossing the Kaipara Bar - Mahurangi Regatta - Matangi - Ghost Gulls Of Picton - Fishfinger song
World War One
I Runga o Nga Puke - Promises to Keep - Hoea Ra Te Waka Nei - Te Ope Tuatahi - Tipirere - Hoki Hoki - Pokarekare Ana -
In Memoriam
- Karangatia Ra - Rua Kenana  - Knitting -
The Kid from Timaru
Alcohol Pounamu Rama Nei - Poropeihana - The Shanty by the Way - The Day the Pub Burned Down - By the Dry Cardrona  - Charlie's Bash - Dominion Road
Sir Apirana Ngata Karangatia Ra - Kia ora ra koutou - Te Kirimi - Poropeihana - Te Ope Tuatahi
Hunting - fishing In My Little Whare - Eel Song - Black Matai - Ka Ru Ka Ru -
She'll Be Right Mate - Five for a Bob - Te Manu Titi -
Fishfinger song
1930s Depression
Swaggers
My Man's Gone Now - Mihiwaka - Down on My Luck - Sergeant Small  - Long and Friendly Road  - Walking on My Feet
- My Man's Gone Now - Russian Jack
Coal mining  &
Drilling for Gas
Down in the Brunner Mine - Run to the Brunner - Coaltown Blues - Black River Mine - Hard Oil
Politics,
  protest songs

He Kau Ra - Kaore Hoki Taku Manukanuka - Hitara Waha Huka - Poropeihana - Shaky Isles - My Old Man's an All Black - Damn the Dam - Pureora - E Tu Stand Proud - Hoea Ra Nga Waka - Under the Sun - Our Mates in Australia - Right Wing Articulate Rebel - No Depression in New New Zealand - Send the Boats Away - Trickle Down - Me and Convoy 22
Train & plane travel

Big Bull Yank - Okaihau Express - My Man's Gone Now - Kiwi Express - The Hole in the Hill - Pillows of the Dead - Taumarunui - The Wreck of the Old 2-2-7 - The Rimutaka Line - The T.T. Line - Fairlie Flyer - Postholes - Sergeant Small - Bert's Biplane - The Coleridge Run
 Animals

Paikea - Ruia Ruia - Kaore Hoki Taku Manukanuka - Tahora Nui - Ki Ko Ki Ko - Spider In The Bath - Remember Young Opo - Pelorus Jack - Tangaroa Whakamautai - Love in a Fowlhouse - Dulcie and the Moa - Tarakihi the Locust - Tihori mai te Rangi - Pukeko in a Ponga Tree - One Day a Taniwha - Purerehua - Hiwi the Kiwi - Sticky Beak the Kiwi - Damn the Dam - Ate a Weta - Five for a Bob - Te Manu Titi - Opo the Dolphin
 Sheep

The Life of a High-country Shepherd - McKenzie's Ghost - The Old Mackenzie Trail - Up the Mangapapa - Gutboard Blues - Scourer From Mataura - Wartime Knitting
Farming

Apple Pickers' Ball - Rainbird In the Tea-tree - Te Kirimi - Gumboot Song - Thompson's Bus - Super Man - Lady loader-Driver - My Tractor - Postholes - Puketapu - Mist on the Waikato - Black Billy Tea - Big Yellow Paddock of Gorse
- Fixin' To Drown (Cyclone Gabrielle)
- The Talking Dog
Personalities
Captain Cook - Jock McKenzie - Richard 'King Dick' Seddon -
Minnie Dean - Rima Wakarua - Bert Mercer - Ngarimu VC -
Sir Edmund Hillary - Opo - Sir Walter Nash - Don Clark - Norman Kirk -
Arthur Allan Thomas
World War Two

Now is the Hour - The Dugout in Matruh - E Te Hokowhitu A Tu - Au, E Ihu - Arohaina Mai - Kiwi Weka - Maori Battalion - Blue Smoke - Matangi - Hitara Waha Huka - The Sands of the Nile - Kiwi Weka  - Rolling Wheels  (More to be added - Saida Bint - Dear Mr Fraser)
 Urban drift Matangi - Isa Lei - She'll Be Right Mate - Ten Guitars - Poi-E - State House Song - Kia Kaha Nga Iwi - Working for the Roads Board
Pasifika Isa Lei - Tofa My Felini - Ka Rū Ka Rū - Si'i Lili Viola - Fa'ama'i
Rugby

On The Ball - Ei Takari Mai - Ko Niu Tireni - Rugby, Racing & Beer - Big Bad Don - Ka Mate Ka Mate - My Old Man's an All Black - She'll Be Right Mate - Ferdinand - Kapa o Pango - Black Ferns haka
Tramping

In the Tararua Ranges - No Boots at All - A Fast Pair of Skis - No More Double-Bunking - The Marathon Song - On the Slopes of Mt Alpha - The Terror of the Teraneek - Black Billy Tea
Post-war emigration Now is the Hour - Out to Otago - Matangi - Oh Mum
Courtship, young love
Si'i Lili Viola  -  Pretty Girl - Ara! Ka Titiro - Love in a Fowlhouse - He Puru Taitama - I Only Spoke Portuguese  - Kotiro Maori - Pakete Whero - Te Piriti - Mum - Pokarekare Ana Kiwi Weka Matua Whangai - Minnie Dean - Rainbird in the Teatree - Kaore Hoki Koia Te Rangi Nei - Poia Atu Taku Poi
Lost love, babies Black Matai - Minnie Dean - Taumarunui - Invercargill - Hamilton - Puketapu - By the Dry Cardrona - Aunty May
Protests He Kau Ra - Poropeihana - French Letter - Send the Boats Away - Merry Minuet - How High's the Vai Tinana? -
Me & Convoy 22
 
Grieving Tiaho Mai Ra - He Wawata - Te Tai o Kawhia - Hine E Hine - Ho-ki Hoki - Rimurimu - Pillows of the Dead
Anzac Day God Defend New Zealand - Goodnight Ruby - In Memoriam - Promises to Keep - Kiwi Weka
Hymns
Au, e Ihu - E Te Hokowhitu A Tu - E Te Tamaiti - E Toru Nga Mea - Koutou Katoa Ra - Marie Te Po - Tama Ngakau Marie - Whakaaria Mai - Aio ki te Aorangi
Towns
Nga Tai o Kawhia - I've Been Everywhere Man - Hamilton - Tea at Te Kuiti - Taumarunui - Invercargill - Billy the Bus (Stewart Is) - Scourer From Mataura  - The Kid From Timaru
Recitations
The Day the Pub Burned Down - Postholes - Geraldine
The Kiwi Express - The Hole in the Hill
- The Lost Chinaman
The Coleridge Run O'Brien & the Whale - The Kid From Timaru
Epidemics E Timu Ra Koe (Tb epidemic) 
The Railwayman's Daughter
- Tofa My Feleni - (1918 flu)
Soon May the Needleman Come (2020s covid pandemic)
Accidents
Ngahuru's Lament for his Canoe - Eel Song - Get Our Alive - The Wreck of the Old 2-2-7
 Disasters  The Wreck of the Rena - Black River Mine  - Level Two & Rising - Fixin' To Drown (Cyclone Gabrielle)
Crimes Minnie Dean - Walter Bolton - Arthur Allan Thomas - Robin Bain - Clint Rickards 
Matariki, Christmas
Nga Tamariki o Matariki - To Aroha, Matariki - Pukeko in a Punga Tree - Upside Down Christmas - Te Harinui - Sticky Beak the Kiwi - Marie Te Po - Kiwiana Christmas - Christmas Begins With You - One on a Tractor - Jersey Cow Came Mooing - The Southern Cross Looks Down 
Global Warming
Merry Minuet - How High's the Vai, Tinaana? - The Canary Song - Fixin' To Die Rag - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - We Don't need Another Hero - Level Two & Rising The Late Great Planet Earth - Fixin' To Drown (Cyclone Gabrielle)

Published on web November 2006.
More songs added 2009 - 1012 - 2016 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2024

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