This East Coast chant uses an ancient paddling song of the Takitimu voyagers. This tukiwaka, or takitaki-hoe-waka, is a good example of rhythmic waka chants, with their regular beats and frequent repetitions. It is used nowadays as a haka taparahi to promote or pay tribute to cooperative effort. Recorded at the Investiture of Lt Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu VC, Ruatoria, 1943, with the performers abbreviating some words, but with great audience interaction.

Whakaara Ma konei ake au! Titaha ake ai, hai? Me kore e tutaki? He pūpū karikawa, he pūpū harerorero, hi? Ka tikoki! Ka tahuri! Ka tikoki! Ka tahuri! Ka tahuri ra Nui Tireni, I au, au au!

Warming up Let me get going this way! Always going sideways, eh? Maybe I'll meet you then? A big fat sea snail a sea snail poking out his tongue, eh? It's losing it's balance! It's going to capsize! It's tipping over! It's capsized! - New Zealand has capsized! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Taparahi Papā te whatitiri, hikohiko te uira, I kanapu ki te rangi; i whetuki i raro ra. Rū ana te whenua, e! E, i aha tērā e? Ko te werohanga A Porourangi i te Ika a Maui e takoto nei! A ha ha! Kia anga tiraha ra tō puku ki runga ra! A ha ha! Kia eke mai o iwi ki runga ki To tuatua werowero ai e ha! I aue, taukuri, e!

Ceremonial haka The thunder crashes, the lightning flashes, it illuminates the heavens, and hammers downward. The land is forever shaking, wow! What is that, eh? Porourangi has pierced the Fish of Maui lying beneath us! A ha ha! So it is your belly, upturned and laid bare ! A ha ha! So that your people may mount And spear you! A ha ha! Ee! Alas, oh dear, yes!

Porourangi was the founder of the Ngati Porou people, and the Fish of Maui is the North Island. Porourangi was one of the first to cultivate the soil of the North Island.

Tena ra, e tama...  At the posthumus investiture of Lt. Ngarimu VC in 1943, this was modified to Tena ra, Moananui...

Whakarere....wawawa. These last four lines are from the karakia Taikehu chanted after the Tainui left Rarotonga, and they are also used in the oriori Pō! Pō! with some modifications. The fly-away lost kumara digging stick Maninikura of Pō Pō is here a paddle flying down, striking the water pleasantly. And the fearfully crying treasured baby is now a red-breasted godwit fearfully contemplating its 10,000 km non-stop flight cross the Pacific.

Kura 1. The Takitimu people's Tahitian ancestors sailed hundreds of kilometres to the Cook Islands to catch Kura, red breasted lorikeets whose feathers were treasured by them as red onamentation on the finely woven loincloths of their kings. Because red feathers were rare, these maro kura were small and lightweight treasures. Big heavy treasures that weighed down (tao) a sailing vessel were called tao-nga.

Kura 2. Chestnut-red breast feathers appear on mature godwits, or Kuaka, in autumn when they are about to depart on their high-speed and fearfully long-distance breeding flight to Siberia, and these reddish birds are also called Kura. When there was no wind, the Society Islanders paddled large canoes long distances between islands across the open ocean, at high speed, just like the red-breasted Kura flying overhead.
 
Kura 3. After Polynesians brought this chant to New Zealand, where greenstone for making fine chisels enabled the creation of elaborate carving, carved waka became treasures, but they were taonga, not kura.
Nowadays the meaning of kura in this haka is transferred to metaphorical 'paddling,' or the treasured spirit of cooperative effort that gets people places.

wawawa is not in any dictionary I have access to, but wawaa is a loud rumbling, which could refer to the sound of hundreds of migrating birds taking to the sky simultaneously.

E whara wai ia kō wā - Written versions give these kupu and translations.
E hara (sic) ko te wai o taku hoe, That was not the water from my paddle. (1930)
Ehara ko te wai o to waho, It's not like foam from your mouth. (1943)

Ko re-rere! Tō rere! Te rere i te waka! Written versions give these kupu and translations.
E ka rere te rere i te waka! How the canoe flies! (1930)
Ka rere! I ka rere! Te rere i te waka, So my canoe rushes along, swiftly, so smoothly. (1943)

E kō kōmako - these last six lines are from the end of Rūaumoko, an ancient haka that uses sexual metaphor to express the quiet bliss experienced after exerting oneselves totally.


In this 1977 performance, the Mangatū Haka Club use all the words printed above.

Sources

The Maori: Yesterday and To-day, 1930, The Chant of Takitimu
Opening of Turongo House, 1938, Sir Apirana Ngata
Ngarimu VC investiture 1943, Kura Tiwaka Taua
Gisborne Māori Competitions, 1977, Mangatū Haka Club
Nga Iwi o Tainui, 1995, Pei Te Hurinui Jones