Thanks to the Hobbits ow!

"About 140 years ago, a particularly notorious warlike chief named Te Rauparaha of the Ngati Toa tribe, was being chased by his enemies. He hid in a kumara pit and waited in the dark for his pursuers to find him. He heard sounds above and thought he was done for when the top of the pit was opened up and sunshine flooded in. He was blinded and struggled to see those about to slay him. When his sight cleared he instead saw the hairy legs of the local chief (reputed to have been exceptionally hirsute) who had hid him. Te Rauparaha is said to have jumped from the pit and performed this haka on the spot, so happy was he to have escaped."

Thanks to some random website (and Google) - the flatty's story of the hobbit being rescued from the well appears to have substance...

KA MATE KA MATE
It is death It is death

KA ORA KA ORA
It is life It is life

KA MATE KA MATE
It is death It is death

KA ORA KA ORA
It is life It is life

TENEI TE TANGATA PUHURUHURU
This is the hairy man

NANA I TIKI MAI WHAKAWHITI TE RA
Who caused the sun to shine again for me

UPANE UPANE
Up the ladder Up the ladder

UPANE KAUPANE
Up to the top

WHITI TE RA
The sun shines!

Whereas the new one (Kapa o Pango) goes a 'lil somin like dis:

KIA WHAKAWHENUA AU I AHAU!
Let me become one with the land

HI AUE, HI!!

KO AOTEAROA E NGUNGURU NEI!
This is our land that rumbles

AU, AU, AUE HA!
And it’s my time! It’s my moment!

KO KAPA O PANGO E NGUNGURU NEI !
This defines us as the All Blacks

AU, AU, AUE HA!
It’s my time! It’s my moment!

I AHAHA!

KA TU TE IHIIHI
Our dominance

KA TU TE WANAWANA
Our supremacy will triumph

KI RUNGA KI TE RANGI E TU IHO NEI, TU IHO NEI, HI!
And will be placed on high

PONGA RA!
Silver fern!

KAPA O PANGO, AUE HI!
All Blacks!

PONGA RA!
Silver fern!

KAPA O PANGO, AUE HI, HA!
All Blacks!

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