Rona (track 15 of 16)

Track 15 of the 1970 album Songs of Maori heroes, by Upper Hutt kapa haka group Māwai Hakona, 'Rona' is an action song by Te Oka (Jock McEwen). The song begins with a traditional style of chant in unison and then breaks into a modern action song, returning to the chant at the end. The theme is the folk tale of Rona, the girl who cursed the moon for going behind a cloud, causing her to stub her toe on a ngaio tree. The moon dragged Rona and the tree up into the sky, where you may see them in the full moon. Rona beat the American astronauts to the moon by hundreds of years!