"Aotearoa" genre: Oceanic
	lo fi play (dial-up) hi fi play (broadband) download (3.8 MB)	email track to a friend	add to My.MP3
	Mainly drums and vocals, over 30 vocal tracks on this version!! Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand
	MP3.com CD: Kiwi Heart New Zealand - buy it! CD: Liwi Heart Credits: Mike Lipscombe
	Story Behind the Song New Zealand is a long way from anywhere. To get to it you had to arrive by boat ( we are talking two centuries ago here). There is a very strong Maori influence in the country still. They were the earlier inhabitants and when the English arrived, nearing the end of their empire, they negotiated a treaty, heavily weighed towards the English, which has come back and bit them in the bum this past 20 years. I am white, but love my country, as we all do, but I approve thoroughly of the efforts of the Maori people to have stolen land returned and their sovereignty (at least) acknowledged. Maori or European, Aotearoa is the name of our country. Lyrics Maori A utainga mai nga iwi otu motu ki runga whakatu e tau nei Kahikitia tana iwi kahikitia tana waka The three mountains are named in the song Aoraki (Mount Cook) Taranaki ( formerly Mount Egmont) Tongriro English To the land I was born came the men of the pacific then the men from the north in the tall ships searching and the river was loud and the forest calling and we chose this land and called it home and the mountain lakes breathe in with the rhthym of the moon breathe out the rhthym of the heavens and the air that I breathe is the taste of the breath of the mountain Aorangi Taranaki Tongariro As I live upon the land and I grow into my history, voices of the past call clearly and I listen with my heart to the stir of the river and the voice of Tane singing in the Kauri

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).