Te Rauparaha,
Kikiki Kakaka (Ka Mate)
“ I am dead! I am alive! I am alive! I am dead! I am dead! I am alive! I am alive! Behold the one with the hair, The one who retrieved And relit the sun. A step, then a step, A step, then a step, The sun shines! This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content. Within the jurisdiction of New Zealand, the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Act 2014 requires that:Anything to which the right of attribution applies must include a statement that Te Rauparaha was the composer of Ka Mate and a chief of Ngati Toa Rangatira. ”
