Te mōrehurehu hoia whakamutunga

Waiata Link

Chords: D#, G#, A#

Capo 1: D, G, A

(Karanga)

Kāore te aroha ki te kororia tapu

E waewae ake ana i te ara kūiti

Nau mai e tama ka haere tāua

Ki a Ihaia kia monitatia

Kia huihui tātau he kōrero hanga nui

 

(Waiata)

E kore rātau e koeketia

Pēnei i a tātau kua mahue

 

E kore hoki rātau e ngoikore

 

Ahakoa i ngā ahuatanga (o te wā) x2

I te tōrengitanga (o te rā) x2

 

Tae noa ki te aranga mai o te ata

Ka maumahara tonu tātau ki a rātau

Ka maumahara tonu tātau ki a rātau

 

 

Nō te tai Hauauru (7)                            E kore rātau e wareware i a ahau

Nō te tai Rāwhiti                                     Ka maumahara tonu tātau ki a rātau

Nō te tai Tonga

Nō te tai Runga

 

E kore hoki rātau e ngoikore

Ahakoa i ngā ahuatanga o te wā       Ahakoa i ngā ahuatanga o te wā

I te tōrengitanga o te rā                          I te tōrengitanga o te rā                  

 

Ka maumahara tonu tātau ki a rātau

Ka maumahara tonu tātau ki a rātau

Ka maumahara tonu tātau ki a rātau

Ka maumahara tonu tātau ki a rātau

 

 

Credit: Te Pikikōtuku o Ngāti Rongomai Te Matatini 2025 (Whakawātea)

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.”

From Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen, written in September 1914