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Taku Manu Tāwhiowhio

I te marama o Hakihea, i te tau 2010, i toko ake te huatau kia titoa tētehi waiata mō Tā Pāora Reeves.  Nā tōna kaha ki te mahi i te ao Māori, i te ao Pākehā, ā, i te ao Atua anō hoki.  E mohiotia whānuitia ana e te tī, e te tā, ehake a Tā Pāora Reeves i te tangata, he ata kē ia nō te Atua.  Ko ia rā hoki te Manukura o te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau.

Nō reira, he waiata tautoko tēneki waiata.  He waiata whakareka hoki i ngana kupu, i ngana kōrero waiwaiā.  He waiata e tiutiu atu ana ki ngā manu o te kī, kia whakapiripiri mai ki te rākau taumatua, ki reira kōrerorero ai ngā take o te wā.  He pātere e takitaki haere ana i ngā tohu whenua, tohu maunga, tohu awa, tohu moana anō hoki.  Kei roto tonu i ngā ingoa o ngā wāhi he kōrero hītori tāngata, he kōrero hītori whenua mō Tāmaki Makau Rau.
He mihi tēneki ki a Valance Smith, nāna te taki o te waiata pātere nei me ngētehi o ngā kupu i tākoha mai. He mihi hoki ki a Ngarimu Blair (Ngāti Whātua), mō ngētehi o ngā whakamārama o ngā ingoa o te wāhi nei.  Ko te mihi whakamutunga ki a Tā Pāora Reeves i kapohia ake ia e te ringa o Hine-nui-te-pō i te 14 ō Here-turi-kōkā, i te tau 2011.  I tana matenga, i ūwhia a Aotearoa e te hukapapa o Taranaki, he tohu aroha, he tohu whakapono, he tohu rangatira.

Nō reira, e moe e koro, e oki.  Kei taku manu tāwhiowhio tiu kore, auē, taukiri ē!

Maori lyrics

Kōrihi atu taku manu tāwhiowhio
Ki te tini, ki te mano o Hākuturi
Aku manu honenga
Aku manu whitirua

Ki te kai
Ki te inu i ngā wai o Horotiu

Ki ngā here Pūrengi

Rangitāmiro ai te kōwhao o te ngira

Ka takakawehia te ara poutama

Pupū ake ake ngā wai o Waitematā

E tū atu ai Te Ipu a Mataaoho

Tū mai Rangipuke

Ka karanga ā-Hape

Whakawhiti atu ki te Rerenga Oraiti

Te Whatu tauranga kāwau tikitiki

Pou herenga waka

Ko te reo pōwhiri!
Ko te reo karanga!

Ko te mātāpuna o te kete Aronui!

TAU, TAU, TAU ANA E!

Ētahi atu nō tēnei momo

Tirohia te katoa