Pokarekare Ana - New Zealand's Unofficial National Anthem
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
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'Pokarekare Ana' - a beatiful love song, written by a homesick soldier, serving in the Maori Battalion during World War I - with it's tale of longing, for home & loved ones immediately touched his fellow countrymen, who adopted the haunting melody as thier own.
It's now a poignient musical touch-stone for any homesick New Zealander.
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God, this makes me so homesick for NZ.
Racist Pākēha, get out of New Zealand then.
@@Joe13313 what the heck?
@@Joe13313 the fuck
Me too!☝️🙏❤️
@@Joe13313 I think you miss understand what he or she was saying. Had nothing to do with racist had to do for the love of my country
I’ve had the tune of this song stuck in my head for YEARS and I’ve just rediscovered it since primary school. We used to sing this all the time in assembly. Such a beautiful waiata.
Hello Middie, how are you doing today.
I'm an Aussie and this beautiful song made me cry, because it personifies everything that is pure and lovely. It also brought back memories of when my parents and I travelled to New Zealand for a holiday, and we fell in love the country...in particular the Maori culture and music. My mother was a soprano and she won many hearts with her singing of Now is the Hour and Pokare Kare Ana... such wonderful memories for me.
we love you guys even if we say we don't
Ditto @@itzdilpickle3679
This song was written for my great aunt, Kuini Ryland, of Tokomaru Bay (Ngati Porou) and it was written as a love song by neighbouring Ngati Kahungunu chief, Paraire Tomoana, with the help of Maori politician, Sir Apirana Ngata. And yes, Paraire Tomoana was a member of the 28th Maori Battalion.
Could you please tell us/translate what the song is about?
+Dale Mulligan, since you know the song that much, I have a question for you: How many English loan words are there in the text?
+Island Gal This is like a month late haha, but here is a translation of the lyrics:
They are agitated,
the waters of Waiapu,
But when you cross over girl,
they will be calm.
Oh girl,
return to me,
I could die
of love for you.
I have written my letter,
I have sent my ring,
so that your people can see
that I am troubled.
Oh girl,
return to me,
I could die
of love for you.
My love will never
be dried by the sun,
it will be forever moistened
by my tears.
Oh girl,
return to me,
I could die
of love for you.
And +Koppa Dasao, I’m no expert in Te Reo Maori, but I’m pretty sure the only loanword in this text is “ringi” which means “ring”. As far as I know, all the other words used are of Maori origin :)
@@ccx7004 This version is missing the third stansa.
Whati whati taku pene
ka pau aku pepa
Ko taku aroha
mau tonu ana e.
The fourth one is less obvious, and the only one I'm less than certain is an English loanword, but I'm still pretty sure the origin for that word is English.
Dale Mulligan ☝️
I'm listening to this in honor of the 50 New Zealanders who died March15, 2019. My sympathies to all.
As an Aussie, I got to admit you guys are ok.
haha!
Choice Bro !! Sweet As !!
Kia Ora Cobber!
Sweet as bro
I believe the world secretly admires new Zealand, including me in america
New Zealand has so much culture like this song which brings back memorable primary school days of singing and listening to Maori songs. NZ is the best country in the World by far!
Yes, i guess you are proud to be New Zealanders and you are entitled to be proud. Small country, huge heart. We, as allies remember the courage of your soldiers and thank you for your sacrifice. The Maori battalion is a legend among warriors and their courage will be a b bench mark for warriors ahead.
9 years ago I was on Air NZ heading home to Aust. from the US...missing my wife....and drinking gin and tonic..sitting up in the pointy end and I asked the personable steward about this song and to my amazement and eternal joy he sang it for me and his two colleagues joined in......well maybe it was the gin....but I had tears streaming down my face.....as an Aussie l regard this as the most beautiful love song.....good on you NZ......this is truly a treasure
It’s true and the sort of thing they, crying is good for this song, kiaroa
Today our New Zealander guest at the university played this anthem after the presentation she made about the country.
We love it! Greetings from Turkey! :)
What a beautiful voice the person singing your NZ national Anthem has.
It's Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
I listen to this song every time I get homesick for Aotearoa to be with my people It helps a lot mates
I'm glad that I was raised and live in this country.
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I heard this beautiful piece of music a few times when we traveled to NZ in 2010. I am a proud Australian but the more I hear it the more I feel a Kiwi as well, The video is a credit to you and I only wish our "where the bloody hell are you" ad was even a quarter of the quality of this. Congratulations, BigSyz, you can be very proud. Doug
Lovely comment, Douges. I feel exactly the same way.
we were almost the 6th state of Australia , but the voters here back in the day said no 😄
i had this beautiful song played at my husbands funeral in febuary 2014 it is so moving.ann lenton
+rosemary lenton I'm so sorry to hear of your loss.
This song was a beautiful way to say 'Until we meet again'. x
+rosemary lenton Arohanui
rosemary lenton
A very touching song. This song made me consider studying Maori. :-D
Greetings from Manila.
(My rugby coaches are from NZ).
My 5th Grade teacher was Maori.
He taught the class this song. We would sing it as he played along on his ukulele. We also used to sing Wooden Heart in Maori too!
This is such a lovely song as is the singer and accompanying video. Quite beautiful.
I just found out about the existence of this aong recently. Needless to say, I was entranced. The feeling I got after listening to it for the first time is something that I haven't got before, and wouldn't get since.
Wow, that tugs at the kiwi heartstrings!I remember learning this in standard 2, in Social Studies ( yes folks, I'm THAT old lol). Peace & love to all expat kiwis X
Same here Kim Smit..
i learned this song when i was in primary school, back in the early 70s. Still remembered the lyrics till now.
A lovely song...
Greetings from Singapore!
I'm 69 - live in Australia - we learnt this song in primary school! Loved it then - still do!
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! There are not words to describe the beauty of this song!! Only a man who really LOVED his country could write such a beautiful song!!
I am really proud of being Korean New Zealander.
You're very lucky. It's impossible to immigrate to New Zealand now.
Have you heard the version sung in the Korean drama “Artificial City”
I love it ❤️
Yh, and i am an american middle eastern chinese man
I am replying to the Korean New Zealander..
Beautiful, played it at our Driveway dawn service today to honour everyone on Anzac Day 2021
I'm pretty sure that was Dame Kiri Ta Kanawa who sang the soprano here. Her voice is brilliant. One of my all time favourite sopranos...
I love this song ! The melody is very popular in the south west of France, among people fond of rugby. Some new zealander soldiers transmittted this song to some Basque and Occitan choirs during WW1. Then, it began in France, an Occitan song, inditulated "Adiu e bona fortuna" (Farewell and good luck). I spend the 40 first years of my life thinking that it was an Occitan or Pyrenean song ...So, the Maori and Pyrenean song are astonishly similar...Thanks for sharing.
wow that's really interesting to know!!
I walked the Via Podiensis this year and I was struck how similar the Basque culture is to our Maori and New Zealand culture, love for music, humour, food and of course rugby.
Im miss New Zealand so much, growing up there was the best part of my life hands down ❤💙💪
Top marks for this brilliant vid..Wonderful video and music.......amazing country.
What a beautiful country, i understand the proud of the New Zealand people and i understand the homesick from the songwriter.
This makes me cry. I lived 3 years in beautiful Aotearoa, which I adopted as my second home! Haven't been to many places in the world, but NZ is definitely a very special place on this planet! Its people and landscapes are beautiful!
Beautiful video as a background for such a hauntingly beautiful song. New Zealand ( especially South Island ) has to be one of the most beautiful places on earth and blessed with wonderful people.
This is a song from my childhood, i'm almost 70 now and Sunday dinners in Yorkshire were never complete without "Two way family favourites" a programme that connected British forces all over the world with families in UK on the radio. This song was often requested as I think English Troops had heard Kiwi troops singing it and it struck a chord. I also seem to remember a mixed language version That started off something like "Pokarakare ana means a ripple on the ocean" Though I prefer the original version. Thanks NZ for a lovely memory.
I only lived there for 4 years in the mid to late 50s but had to learn this beautiful song plus the Maori farewell. Pity I can't sing but love singing along whenever I hear these beautiful songs.
quintessential NZ song, one of the best and a great match for the dramatic landscape of my beautiful New Zealand. I miss you..........
I have listened to many version of this magnificent song on youtube, but this one is the best so far.
I once returned across Lake Wakatipu on the wonderful SS 'Earnslaw'. The pianist played this song, and I was the only person on the whole vessel not singing. Even teenagers were giving their all.
Roderick B Smith (Australia)
I am so proud being New Zealand citizen. I live in Australia but...STILL CALL NEW ZEALAND...HOME!!!
Left Ireland after the Earth quake hit , worked with switched on electrical Christchurch,very proud to be apart of the CQC AND EQR work help and recovery... beautiful country and peoples ❤ I really miss NZ ,, the bog bar 🍸 😢 best years of my life
I saw it there too, what a great moment. NZ really is God's own country, a spectacularly beautiful place and great people. I'm Australian, and love the fact this unwrecked paradise is so close. It's clean, it's independent and it hasn't been wrecked by rampant third world immigration. They have their own distinct culture, and overall, respectfully integrated the original inhabitants. NZers - keep your independence and don't let Australia, the US or the third world overrun your beautiful home!
What a great song!
Greetings from the Polish Rose Valley. 🖐🇵🇱 😊 Mirka
@Lora Jessica Hello ... How are you, greetings from Poland🌹
This being sung at the final reading of the marriage equality bill is a moment of NZ political history I shall never forget.
I'm the same as you when I hear this song. My heart swells and I'm a 4th generation Aussie. Since I can remember I have always had a drawing to New Zealand. Must be a previous life thing.
I have always loved this number. I heard it once in a NZ movie called "Brother's" `~ jero ~ Durban, South Africa
Listening to this at work in Canada and trying not to shout cry at my desk!
Kia Kaha indeed.
what a video. what a place. I'm from Wales and I've been around a bit. Aotearoa is the most gorgeous land on our planet. Zero contestation.
born in australia but spent first 13 years of my life in nz-my dad came from invercargill-remember learning this at school,in the maori language and at 62 years of age can still sing it.Back in oz now but nz has all my best childhood memories for me.I sometimes feel more kiwi than aussie but thats not a bad thing
This song is one of the most inspiring, ethnic combining, understandings of what it is to be Kiwi, born or elected. The very soul of the song is who we are. I am a New Zealander!!!!
Kas McEntyre Yup or home :)
I'm not from NZ but spent almost a year there and have been a kiwi since. This song and video makes me swell with pride for my "second home", really well done!
north island with its incredible rain forest. saw largest Kauri tree there. South island also outstanding . beaches on both beat HAWAII major time.
I'm a nzer and I have always loved this song
Used to sing this at Neerim South secondary school in Victoria, Australia in the 1960s! Always loved this song!
Congratulations New Zealand for showing the world what loves looks like.
I remember learning and singing this at school (in Australia) along with many others, from many lands. Unfortunately about the only cultural songs we _didn't_ learn were those of Aborigines ~ for they don't share them. So, to our mates across the pond, thanks!
that's actually really sad
Thanks for this particular piece, complete with NZ sounds and sights. It's very special and I appreciate it very much.
Beautiful! I can't wait to come back to New Zealand!
The treasures of New Zealand nature,allblacks,sir edmond hillary, and lay back kiwis mis and love my home Aotearoa 🇳🇿
Stunningly beautiful. The scenery, the voices, the harmonizing....brought a tear to my eye.
@Lora Jessica I'm great thanks.
It was on BBC Radio 3's Music in the Great War yesterday, Thursday 2 July 2014. I had not heard it before. Wonderful!
I love this song and i can really share the feelings of so many people making a second anthem of it. We in Germany don't have so touching songs but a lot of so called folk songs brought into the szene by profitmakers. Those melodies we call "Lederhosenfolklore" and the networks obtain mostly the best time for brodcasting them. As far as I am informed the Pokarekare Ana based on an christian melody from the northern part of the British Islands, was taken buy Maori sodiers during WW II to NZ and was transformed to a "Maori-Lederhosen-Song". I personally like it, hear it many often, but I'm afraid that an new sort of religion with monetary background is making its way by this nice and harmless song. Please dont look at my poor English. But I visited school more then 60 years ago.
what a nice song! I'm Indonesian and I love kiwis ❤
come here on holiday 👍
The closest you guys have is The New Zealand Army Band (not to the same degree as the College Marching Band), they play all over the world and they do the opening of “Get Smart theme” with the Drum Major going through the halls of CONTROL (through the band) and gets blocked right at the end, Boogey Woogy Bugle Boys etc, all the way to Pokarekare Ana (all musicians singing unaccompanied) and the Haka. A lot of these are on RUclips Tube. They feature a lot at The Edinburgh Tattoo.
I don't know why but I always get goosebumps when I listen to this song. Ilysmm New Zealand You will always be my home (:
After 20 years in Canada, this tears me up. I know where I belong. Mo ake tonu atu.
Beautiful. Reminds me of a wonderful time in NZ many years ago. I now so want a return visit.
My wife is from tainui heritage, she loves listening to these songs
In tears....so homesick today😞
Beautiful and a favourite since childhood. Thanks 😍
Absolutely love it, great video as well. Thank you.
If I wasn't already really proudly South African, this would have made me wish I was a NZealander... Beautiful thank you.
It was a such wonderful time when I lived in NZ - Mt Mauganui!!!!
Lovely places I've been there. I love New Zealand.
I sang this with the (on field) choir at the recent Wales V New Zealand match in Cardiff. My favourite song from a memorable day with my two daughters, Cerys and Rhian and the Abertillery Orpheus Choir.
This video show all that is GOOD about New Zealand.The song sums it all up.
GO NZ!
Being away from NZ I was thinking of doing a vid to this song but after seeing your vid perfect. Makes me miss NZ even more...
best song ever.. such awesome lyric! proud to be a New Zealander
first time I've cried in years
This song makes me so proud to be a Kiwi
Absolutely beautiful
In the 80's I hear it from Sissel Kyrkjebø.
I'm glad to find the original.. Thanks to Sissel from Denmark 🇩🇰.
It's a beautiful song...
it's sad I live in the most dull looking city in new Zealand need to move down south I think there's breath taking scenery down there
Open your eyes, there’s beauty everywhere you just not concentrating on it.
Isabel
Expats sing this every New Yr`s Eve, whether Aus. HK or Bali.
The pictures are beautiful.
Always end up crying when I hear this song
I'm an Aussie and remember learning this song in school but with English lyrics. I live in Spain now but watch a lot of kDramas; imagine my surprise when the song turned up in multiple tv shows but with Korean lyrics. I had no idea that it was so popular in Korea. A few minutes ago, in a show called Finland Papa, a female lead character was dancing in maori style with Pokarekare Ana playing in the background.
brings tears to my eyes
I remember going back to NZ because that's where I belong they are my people
Me too, I'm working on it!
Oh wow! I love the song & it really make me cry the song is very so emotional. I love Maori songs although I may not understand the language. What a beautiful songs. Go New Zealand love it.I start crying in tear thanks for sharing.
Nothing says 'New Zealand' more than Dame Kiri singing this song. To hear this as our anthem at the Olympic Games would be incredible. There wouldnt be a dry eye in the stadium.
Reminds me of the days when i first came to the country in 2003. We used to sing this song at school and learn to play it on the recorder
ohoh made me even more homesick...
Love the country. love it here in New Zealand
Magnifique chanson ! Par la magie du rugby, elle a été adoptée par moultes chorales béarnaises, landaises et pyrénéennes.. Depuis, sous le titre "adieu et bonne chance" (Adiù e bona fortuna) elle est devenue un des trésors du patrimoine occitan et basque.
this song is song beautifully love it
I love this song so much, thanks for sharing!!
Indeed a little bit of magic to improve our understanding of the world in which we live.
Awesome song, awesome country. Awesome soldiers.
Every time I hear this I want to go home to Aotearoa for good
Was tryna find this song for a loong time oi. Finnaly found it;)) Mean az doe! Ka Pai on the song whanau
So proud to be Maori and a New Zealander proud of both my Maori and English heratige
I love mey home, New Zealand I will forever remember as my home c:
Me too love nz where was born such a special place.
Thank you Dame Kiri Te Kanawa! 🎉
I'm an Aussie and I love this beautiful song from a beautiful country..
This song always makes me teary/emotional.