Summary

Portrait of Te Rauparaha 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.
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