Tainui Rangatahi

Très beau chant maori (waitata) . Tainui Rangatahi signifie: La jeune génération de Tainui. Tainui est l'une des confédérations maories d'Aotearoa (Nouvelle-Zélande):

"Tainui is a tribal waka confederation of New Zealand Māori iwi. The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Māori iwi of the central North Island of New Zealand: Hauraki, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa and Waikato. These iwi share a common ancestry from Polynesian migrants who arrived in New Zealand on the Tainui waka, which voyaged across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaiki to Aotearoa (North Island) approximately 800 years ago. According to Pei Te Hurinui Jones, the Tainui historian, Tainui first entered the Waikato about 1400 bringing with them kumara plants. By about 1450 they had conquered the last of the indigenous people in a battle at Atiamuri." (Wikipedia : Tainui link )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainui

Paroles:

Kia Kaha ra
Tainui Rangatahi
Tainui te waka tupuna
Taupiri te maunga tapu e
Te Wherowhero te tangata
Waikato te Awa
He piko he Taniwha Taniwharau,
Kia kaha ra
Te Roopu Rangatahi

Tainui rangatahi kia hiwa ra
Tainui rangatahi kia kaha ra
Pupuritia te mana a o tatou tupuna
kawa rawa e tukua nga tikanga
kia takahia, e te iwi ke

Te mahi raupatu o nga whenua
E kore mahi mo te iwi whanui
Kimihia, te huarahai tika
kia kaha ra
nga wangawanga nga wawata,
Kei roto o Te Tiriti O Waitangi,
Kia kaha ra,
Tainui Rangatahi!!
Kia kaha ra,
Tainui Rangatahi!!