Papa te whatitiri (track 2 of 16)

Track 2 of the 1970 album Songs of Maori heroes, by Upper Hutt kapa haka group Māwai Hakona, 'Papa te whatitiri' is a welcome song with words by Te Oka (Jock McEwen), based on a Cook Island song. In the classical style, the song opens with references of the boundaries of the tribe, the Rimutaka Range, the Tararua mountains and the hills across the river from Upper Hutt, known to Māori as Pūrehurehu, and to the Europeans at Moonshine. The song ends by welcoming all young people to Whirinaki.