Tenei au (track 12 of 16)

Track 12 of the 1970 album Songs of Maori heroes, by Upper Hutt kapa haka group Māwai Hakona, 'Tenei au' has words by Te Oka (Jock McEwen) and a tune based on a Tahitian song. The song describes how young people try, without great success, to perform the arts of their ancestors and how they ask their elders to help them.