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TOP KIWI SONGS

LATEST BALLADS

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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!



I am the very model of a
Modn Russian General



Lonely Lonely Blues

Look what you've  done


This Woolshed!

a rotten disgrace


The Old Bruce Road

Whakapapa bliss


Going dn to Gorlem

anti-nuclear action


Orange Sky

laundry for homeless


The Gravedigger's Lament


The Peavey Song

C&W for Simcha Delft


Blood Red Roses

a fake halyard shanty


The Talking Dog

marry in haste, and...


Tank Yank from
the West Bank


Five For a Bob
an old rabbiter's son


Half-way down
Dominion Road



The Late Great
Planet Earth



Me & Convoy 22
protest at the Beehive

 




Nga Hoe o te Waka
children's song


E Rima Nga Manu
children's song


Arohatia
Help teenagers to flourish



Taku Mokopuna

hug my energetic wee one


Aunty Dovey's Songs

sung by everybody


Isa Lei

Farewell to Paradise


Fa'ama'i

1918 Samoan pandemic


He Aka Kei Taku Uma

young new Maori MP


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


Pinepine Te Kura

healing with seafood







Tutira Mai Nga Iwi

line up all together


Purea Nei

Fly O free spirit !


E Te Iwi E

the land is shaking


Tiaho Mai Ra

a light in the dark


Ka Pioioi

Welcome home!


He Kakano Ahau

I'm a seed from Rangiatea


Whakataka Te Hau

Hopeful kakakia


Tai Aroha

love is a bubbling spring


E Minaka Ana

learn to speak Maori!



Pokarekare Ana

WW1 soldier's song


Whakaaria Mai

Sir Howard Morrison


He Honore

sung at powhiri


Tika Tonu

show integrity!


Ka Waiata ki a Maria

the sacredness of women