Tamatea

Tamatea Āio
Tamatea ā Ngāna
Tamatea Kai Ariki
Tamatea Tūhāhā, Tūhāhā

You’ve got everything you need
All you gotta do is believe
Every Tōtara tree grows from a seed
That’s true
Every Waka carved from a tree
Gotta row your own Waka
Navigate the seven seas
I had a dream
I’d be somebody I’d look up to
I’d be somebody I’d look up to
Yeah I had a dream
I’d be somebody I’d look up to
I’d be somebody I’d look up to
But only I could make it come true

Yeah, always be yourself
You could be somebody I would call on if I needed help
Coz you could be remembered as a Pou
Holding up the whare you could shelter all the whānau
Learn about who you come from
That’s a long line of Chiefs
Who were born by the sea-sons of warm Island breezes
Shores and the seas
That’s Aotearoa where we source energy, yo

Manākitanga you could give life
Recite whakatauki you could live by
Remember every one that had to sacrifice
For you to be free from of the struggles of the past life
Always express how you truely feel
What is success what is wealth?
The only way that we can truely heal
Is to be happy with yourself

Coz aroha makes the world go round
Ain’t no problem too big
To get around we can work it out
Aroha makes the world go round
Ain’t no problem too big to get around

If you motivation yourself
You motivate your team
The only ones who make it
Are ones who dare to dream
Motivation yourself
Motivate your team
The only ones who make it
Are ones who dare to dream
You got everything you need

Feel the earth beneath your feet
The sweet caress of Tāwhiri
Hinetītama ka huri tai tini
Ka tipu, ka ora
Ka pō, ka ao, ka awatea
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata

Tai Timu
Tai Pari
Tai Tūhāhā
Kai te huri te puku o te Moana
He nehutai he pāhukahuka
E paratītī mai ana ki uta
He marino te takoto o te wai
Kei raro kē te Taniwha o te tai
Ngā tae paru, ngā pukupuku
Tē taea te hī ika, te rukuruku
“He rimu motumotunga he tīhaetanga toka”
Whakarongo ki te reo o Tamatea
Ki te kore e hopohopo ka mate
Ā, he Toka Tū Moana koe e
Me noho kē ki rāhaki
Aro pūmau ki ngā pūrākau
Hei taonga tuku iho mā tō whānau
I ngā pō o Tamatea kia ū
Kua heke whakararo nga waiū
O Papatūānuku
Ngakia ngā māra
He wā hei whakatipu
Tāria, kia kaunenehu i te awa
Pātuki kino ngā tuna i te ngara
Ngā hua, te oranga o Tamatea kei tuawhenua…

Tamatea Āio (Te Marama i te pō)
Tamatea ā Ngāna (Tūwhitia te hopo)
Tamatea Kai Ariki (Noho tuawhenua)
Tamatea Tūhāhā (Tūhāhā)

You’ve got everything you need
All have you do is believe
Every Tōtara tree grows from a seed
That’s true
Every waka carved from a tree
Gotta row your own Waka
Navigate the seven seas
I had a dream
I’d be somebody I’d look up to
I’d be somebody I’d look up to
Yeah I had a dream
I’d be somebody I’d look up to
But only I could make it come true