NEW  ZEALAND
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ARTY * SONG
We'll Have a Maori Hangi Tonight
Jack Haimona, I Kiwi
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Another song from the Ten Guitars era of the 1950s and 1960s. Young Maori workers had moved from close-knit rural villages to the cultural melting pot of industrial housing estates. They lost many of their traditional Maori-language songs but retained their sense of community with weekend parties.

We'll have hangi for our kai
Pipis, ka pai!
We'll have a Maori hangi tonight
We'll have puha with our pork
Waipiro while we talk
We'll have a Maori hangi tonight

Chorus
Get the stones red 'n hot
Put more puha in the pot
And we'll have a Maori hangi tonight
watch the haka by the boys
Waihine and their pois
We'll have a Maori hangi tonight

We'll gather all the whanau
Make sure our friends all know
We'll have a Maori hangi tonight
We'll get the old guitar
Someone plays harmonica
We'll have a Maori hangi tonight

Repeat chorus, verse 1, then chorus again









Hangi Tonight on Record

2000 - Dennis Marsh, Out of New Zealand, Manuka Studios CD

 

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