ORIGINAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSIONS FROM TE REO MAORI REMIXES ALBUM BY UPPER HUTT POSSE

(Note: The Maori lyrics are not always a literal translation of the English) ____________________________________________________________

CD TRACK 01 - TE HONO WHAKAKORO

MOVEMENT IN DEMAND (original tile + english lyrics)

Movement in demand, It's a Movement, It's a Movement...

It's a movement in demand a seed sown from discotentment planted in the hearts of people with consciousness It's a movement movin' real shit We're stomping it true quick c'mon yeah test us with it Ain't no fear in it we ain't feeble Slammin' out the lyrics they're comin' for the people Chattin' against evil Faith in the knowing is the only rule Growing so we'll move forward from this insanity Wake up get up mash up society So we can forge a better place for us to be Free of wicked politic's and dirty tricks against truth humanity True humanity it a pumpin' through da air now Love humanity that's the way its got to be now True humanity it a pumpin' through da air now Love humanity will a come a come an set my people free

I'm told by my conscience I should be of consequence Actions now are gonna forge the future tense Hence we gotta teach peace truth Inspiration for true equity thats what we gotta be Word up it's too much all the misery Lets do better for our children now thats a victory Lets put the situation in the right perspective Think positive not not the negative Action for the good we have to give So for the world better we're gonna live And in time if we promote peace and harmony We can free the world of deciet and iniquity This people is the way it's got to be

Pump up ya hand cause a Wiya come a gwan Said a all the people now ya must listen said a I command dis the Posse in demand said a Time fe babylon ta let go ya hand said a I command dis the Posse in demand said a Everybody make ya get up and stand This a movement in demand dis a movement in demand Said a downpressed people now a arm in arm There's a movement in demand it's a movement in demand Make ya feel da spirit now a that are de plan It's a movement in demand yes it come for improvement Fight for justice push for the betterment Movement in demand its a movement in demand Lets come together and mash babylon

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CD TRACK 02 - E TU (te reo Maori remix)

E TU (original tile + english/maori lyrics)

Karanga, (calling) Rangatahi,(youth) whakarongo,(listen) whakarongo, (listen)

We're nga tamatoa (warriors) So we must light te ahi (the fire)

Don't get led astray by Babylon Kia mau ki to maori (grasp and hold being Maori)

There's alot of people who think they're tough today But chiefs like Te Rauparaha woulda blown dem away Cher, Hone Heke he expressed his disgust by cutting down the flagpole Pakeha (white people) killed Maori inna Matawhero So Te Kooti exacted it in a slaughter Yes, the Maori battalion inna world war two Staunch on the battlefield dem had many clues Like Moana Ngarimu on hill 209, Victoria cross so true so strong Yes the Maori was a fierce warrior Strike fear in the hearts of the Babylon soldier Yeah its true, yeah its true, I'm talking to you Kia kaha, kia kaha(be strong, be strong) two one two two

E Tu, (Stand Up!) Stand Proud, Kia Kaha, (Be Strong) Say It Loud!

The man who tried to kill him was Von Tempsky But he became a victim of his own folly Cause Titokowaru him too smart you see, guerilla warfare, huh, Maori The British raided a Pa(village) they thought It'd be a victory But Kawiti fooled the enemy The British raided the Pa yeah but they got shot down Cause Kawiti had a plan and it was sound, break down

Te Rangihaeata believes in holding land Against the foe, yo, the British man To him lands essential to the mana(authority) of the chief And in the Hutt there were some hardcore feats In 1846 in the Hutt Valley I said Fighting broke out between the British and the Maori And more than one settler on disputed land Was killed when the Maori fought the British Plan Cause white rule and injustice go hand in hand So against that is where we stand Don't forget those who've fought before Our struggle continues more and more Yeah it's a struggle, it's a struggle The systems got us in a muddle So strive to get outta this puddle

Well I always put my mind to the rhyme Don't wear no gold chains cause we ain't that kind Don't neva rap and say I think I'm cool Just preach the truth with us that's a rule Yeah, rising inflation to me is a crime And sport is politics so don't mess with my mind They falsely own our land so they really don't We've been ripped off man so shut up I won't

You gotta learn the history to know where ya truly are Learn it somehow this ignorance has gone too far Have self determination in what ya gonna do Kia kaha, kia mau ki to Maori Don't let no-one stand on you

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CD Track 03 - KOTIRO MAORI (Maori Girl)

RAGGA GIRL (original tile + english lyrics)

(untranslated)

( a fun song about respect & desire for Maori / Indigenous Girls)

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CD TRACK 04 - TANGATA WHENUA

TANGATA WHENUA (original version in Maori)

 

Ko Papatuanuku toku Whaea - Papatuanuku is my mother

Ko te whenua ia - The earth

Ko Ranginui toku Matua, kei runga ake ia - Ranginui is my father, he is above

Whakarongo mai ki te mea nui rawa - Listen to the thing very important

He take o te Ao - A root of the world

He kaupapa o te Ra nei - A foundation of this day

Ko te Mana Motuhake - Self determination

Me te Tino Rangatiratanga - And upmost leadership

E ora ! koutou ! toku Iwi, - Live! you all! my people

Whaia te wairua o te ahi - Pursue the spirit of the fire

Whakatikangia te kupu, te mahi - Make correct the words, the work

Whakatahea nga hee o Tauiwi - Cause to pass away the wrongs of

Kia rere ai nga hiahia, nga moemoeaa - So can flow the desires, dreams,

O te hinengaro - Of the (place from of where emotions come)

Kia toko ai hoki te whakaaro moohio - So can rise up also the wise thoughts

 

Taangata Whenua Ko Te Pake-Whakapapa - People of land The durable ancestral connections

Taangata Whenua Ko Te Take Me Te Mana - People of land The root and the authority

Taangata Whenua Ko Te Hana O Te Haa - People of land The glow of the breath

Taangata Whenua Te Ahi Kaa - People of land The everburning fire

 

Ko nga mahi a nga Taangata-kino - This is the work of the wicked

Kei te whakararu i te ara tika - Disturbing the correct way

Mau tonu maatou ki te maatauranga - We hold fast to the knowledge

Ko nga mahi a te Paakehaa - This is the work of the Pakeha

Kei te whakawhaanui i te teka - Spreading lies

Me kite maatou i te pono - We must percieve the truth

Me te whakamaaramatanga - And the enlightening

Kia whakakorea ai e maatou a raatou mahikino - In order their evil work be stopped by us

Kia haanguu ai o raatou arero teka - In order their lying tongues be silenced

Ka puritia e maatou te ihi, te wehi, te wana - We hold the ihi, the wehi, the wana

Ka mau tonu, ko te aroha - Held continual, is the aroha

 

Hei kaitiaki ahau i toku Whaea - I stand guard for my mother

Kei taku Tuurangawaewae - At my standing place

Hei kaitiaki ahau i toku Matua - I stand guard for my father

Kaaore raatou e moohio ki te mana - They don't know the inherent strength

E rere ana te toto o aku tuupuna -Flowing is the blood of my ancestors

I roto i taku manawa - In my heart

E rere ana te wairua o aku tuupuna - Flowing is the spirit of my ancestors

 

I roto i te ngaringari nei, i te ngaringari nei - In this unity song, this unity song

I te tinana nei, i te waiata nei - This body, this waiata

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CD TRACK 05 - KA HURI MATAPO

AS THE BLIND SEE (original tile + english lyrics)

Blinded by haughty pride not in my stride - democracy in incognito with a show - ism and skism some like to blame - human beings light many flames - crime defined by partial minds interpreted in courts controlled by men enslaved in bigotry - police enforcing the law of a system blighted with myopia insiduous with discrimination - money is their god - money makes their world turn - money ain't nothing but with money they turned our world - invisible equity - biased hypocrites - wide awake no mistake no justice but they justify in their terms reasons for denied partiality - it's all comin' out as the blind see

One law for all don't mean it should be the whitemans - some people forget what it is to be human - vehement acts of suppression to we native - the deciever is driven by fear to be overcome with overstanding - misled by self doubting dubious morals from the author while questions are lost to apathy - innocent until proven guilty - by twelve men and women chosen from a society - incapable of providing free choice - unquestioned morals serve as a litmus test - for which only the sheep believe for they haven't yet seen or heard or overstood what the righteous heed - but the blind will see and then we'll see

This law is a redneck law - institutional racism with blameless flaws - this justice wretched by nepotists - bigotted in concept inept and lacking depth - they never wanna hear it - got the masses subdued while we get mainly bad news on the news - we shit excuse me cause I'm bringing the good news - cause I refuse to be quelled by moral right left - who cares anyway? - I even say it when I care - burdened with a chip on my shoulder - no.. - know ya place cause I do - I'm so overjoyed to help the blind see

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CD TRACK 06 - HE TOA E HIKOI ANA

DREAD ON A MISSION (original tile + english lyrics)

chorus - Babylon stop your murdering Wicked wicked man we're comin' to seize ya

Dread on a mission, its a Dread on a mission Its a Dread pon de session with a righteous lesson x2 Mush up mush up me come fe mash up de nation x2 To tell you whats right inna dis creation Dready 'ave fe come to change the situation So wake up get up and realise ya must be wise Check their crimes through the times and open up your eyes To their wickedness I say ya really have to know why Don't be deceived by them devils in their disguise Them fill you up with garbage and all of them dirty lies But Dready 'ave fe come ta wake you up and make you realise Them plot and them plan them try a kick a we down Watch your step no don't you slide you must stay alive x2 Cause them don't give a damn whether you live or die Times are hard a times are tuff I said its hard to survive Watch the bloodsucka because them out to get ya Watch the Ku Klux Klan them an antiblackman Watch the Policeman come toss me inna a prison Thru me skin colour they thinking they superior Cause me locks natural bind think a me are de swine Cause me stand up for me rights I said a me them nah like cause Me reveal the truth so a me them want to shoot They can't realise they can neva neva hide Cause when a Jah Jah come them are go tumble down so

Stop it stop it man stop ya murdering x4 Too long wickedness has been around me a go mush it down The babylon them grown strong yet all em do is wrong And that is why this Dreadlocks have fi sing this song So listen in now listen in here weakheartman Me nah like the way that this here world is running The Heads Of Governments are evil and cunning The Polytricks man out there yes creating war While the weak and the poor say we nah want no more Them spend a million dollars on a Nuclear bomb Blast up the nation with them wicked creation While people rob and kill yes a just to get on And people starve and die inna many nation You cut the pension from the old generation Now you cut the money from the unemployed ones Them you go and hire a thousand more policeman Instead of spending money on some crime prevention Ya buy yaselves some planes worth a thirty million And then they cut the money from the solo mum Ya say it's for the better of our nation Yet all you build is more prison

This are a warning to the Ku Klux Klan Clowns This are a warning to all Weakheartman come This are a warning to all Babylon listen This are a warning to the Policeman now Me take the chance a while me got the Mike in me hand So now listen here man cause a this ya have to know What so ever you reap you will surely sow x2 Bo!

The righteous care about the welfare of the poor But the rich wicked man want money more and more But he who's kind to the poor is lending to Jah lord And for what he has done he shall get his reward Whosoever leads the upright along an evil path Shall surely fall into his own trap But the blameless shall receive a good inheritance And Babylon I must suggest that you step back Cause Judgement Day a come a where you a go run Me say Judgement Day a come them a go tumble down So Judgement Day a come a where you a go run Me say Judgement Day a come them a go tumble down So Judgement Day a come repent wicked man Judgement Day a come repent now Babylon Cause if ya don't ya soon to come tumbling down Jah judgement day a come ya come tumbling down so

Ease off your pressure release your pressure follow me now Ease off your pressure Babylon Oppressor come Ease off your pressure release your pressure follow me now Ease off your pressure Babylon Oppressor me say me Dread on a mission say me fighting for me rights say me Dread on a mission said the wicked me nah like me say me Dread on a mission said a fighting for me rights and this time for the wicked me go shed some light

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CD TRACK 07 - TE RANGI PARORO

STORMY WEATHER (original title + english lyrics)

(note: some of the words on the CD were not translated from English - for esxample verse one - Maori) (english translation)

Patua ano he potiki - Another child dies

Na te homanga ki te hinu - From greed towards oil

Tanukumai nga whareteitei e rua - The two tall buildings fall down

Na ana mahi whakahawini - Because of their exploitation of resources

(the following lyrics are from the 1995 version, original version written in 1985)

Stormy, stormy weather, it's comin' down, it's gettin' around

Sun is shining but the weathers still stormy, open eyes mine didn't fool me, cloudy problems awaiting fairness, from above will we bear witness, radiation falling blinding, ideologies waring denying, cold fronts heated phrases, gail forces chances faded, oh yeah I'm a face reality check out the forecast it's gonna be

Hurricanes with peoples names, conceited wars for worldy gains, strong winds blowing broken trust, men and women respects a must, hail stones on the nightly news, people fly at any altitude, tidal waves knock opinions over, violence thuds silent sober, I felt the shudder, I seen the despair, tell me now it isn't past repair

Strangers invaded spaces, hypocracy humid places, temperatures rising in the cold, desperation searching to hold, smouldering rubble in the rain, greenhouse warming smiles in vain, hope snowed over brewing heatwaves, searching souls yearning to be saved, oh the news isn't sunny, oh yeah, check it out it's just gonna be

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CD TRACK 08 - KORE RARU I TE PAATI NEI

NO WORRIES IN THE PARTY TONITE (original tile + english lyrics)

Me say me come and do it inna reggae stylee If you nah like the reggae it no make ne worry Cause the reggae it a very irie But so is blues rap soul and the jazzy Me say turn up the bass on your stereo Light up a spliff and chill me say yo You can forget about your troubles for a little while While we party in a roots rock rap style

chorus - No worries in the party tonite, no No worries in the party tonite, I tell ya No worries in the party tonite, right No worries in the party tonite, murrdurrah!

Never let the troubles get right outta ya mind Never strat saying everything is fine But for this little time a while we're rocking We're feeling fine so there aint no stopping Me say put on a little Tippa Irie, some KRS One and a Bob Marley Open the wine and smoke a little sensi And in the party there'll be no worries

About the world affairs its stormy weather And don't I stop caring no I say never Cause there's too much mess up me say brother So don't take light because it matters But in the party we gonna keep things hearty And even though we know things aint right There's gonna be no worries tonite

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CD TRACK 09 - ATETE TE RERE

AGAINST THE FLOW (original tile + english/maori lyrics) AGAINST THE FLOW

One hundred and fifty years They're still telling but its swelling Cause we've been checking Inspecting while on the story goes Know knowing to be slowing The way the wind blows Mind devices got you in a trap They're keeping you like that They're making you step back From below dictating Where you should go Mind control manipulating Telling ya so It ain't odd even ain't odd It ain't odd we're robbed jobless Messed up wanna give up But if you understand It really ain't odd when you know The systems just a parasite a slob Controller of minds crime creator Sharpen your claws the flaws We gotta break down doors The inequity yeah we see it The hypocrisy ya know We don't buy it but we Kick it fly it hang it out and dry it Toast it float it put it in The horn and yo blow it Too long this grass Can't let it grow tell 'em so AGAINST THE FLOW

Laughing at the suckers Cause they don't impress Siding riding with the wave Called righteousness Looking in the eye of an evil sent Pity on the so-called law Wicked and bent Brother ain't a brother if he wants to go with The flow wake the sucker up or let him rot Down below like Tom he's in the house Just a babylon mouse look out the tides turning We might roast him in a heavy douse They want him there mouthing what They want him to say outside people shouting Hey where the hells our new day assuming The position for his people he's speaking The fool too much ego he's seeking money He gets from someone else's boat he rows A political puppet yeah we know Siding with evil that grass we gotta mow Tell 'em so AGAINST THE FLOW

Stepping on the feet if they're in the way Listening if you're talking or walking out with No delay smoking with the truth that the Righteous say choking on the games that The foolish try to play we gotta roll with The blows from below and give them a show Block the mock the lies serve them up Food to go intelligise and realise Why it's like that teach the truth to the young So they'll never step back Cause it's in our hands lets get our plan We together stand it's our time understand They wanna know lets give em a show Tell 'em so AGAINST THE FLOW

Enough is enough times up it's our time Have you seen have you read the sign The systems doomed get in the righteous Know tell 'em so AGAINST THE FLOW Enough is enough times up it's our time Enough is enough have you read the sign Enough is enough times up it's our time Enough is enough have YOU read the sign Enough is enough times up Enough is enough times up, times up

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CD TRACK 10 - WHAKAKOTAHI

WHAKAKOTAHI (original tile + english/maori lyrics)

Ko wai nga Tangata Whenua i enei motu, whakarongo ki nga karanga o nga iwi Maori, he aha te mahi o te kawanatanga, I tahae koe ki nga taonga Maori, I mauria mai koe ki nga mate nga piro, Mai rano tae noa mai ki tenei ra, he aha te mea nui o te Ao Maku e ki atu, he Tangata, he Tangata, he Tangata

(Who are the indigenous people os these islands, listen to the call of the Maori people, What is the work of the government - you have stolen Maori treasures and brought sickness and stink. From long ago to this day, what is the most important thing of this world, i will tell you, it is people, it is people, it is people)

(... Planet earth 196.940,00 square miles, all over the planet earth and where ever they go they conquer the people, murder the people, take their land and then set up their own Government there after invading the peopleÕs land and then name it what they wanna name it ...) - Khallid Muhammad (Nation Of Islam) - sample - not on Maori lanuguage version

Fuck New Zealand ya call me a kiwi Aotearoa the name of the country Maori are we Tangata Whenua - people of the land Keepers of the fire Te Ahi Kaa Indigenous people we are as you can see lets control our destiny Shake a break the chains of fear and despair free Realise it's we who live and breathe do you see Rooted on earth like the mighty kauri tree Etched in existence I am continually Whakawhita te ora life shines the cause to be Brother sister people rejoice thats you and me

Whakakotahi!

Kua ngaro nga tamariki o Tane Mahuta, I whakaparu te moana o Tangaroa, I takahia koutou i runga i te mana o Papatuanuku, Kati to mahi kati

(the children of Tane Mahuta (god of forest) are gone(in reference to the many trees cut down), the sea of Tangaroa (sea god) is polluted, they've trampled on the authority of mother earth, stop your work, stop it!

(... To ask black people to forgive you for killing them wholesale in Africa, in the isles of the Pacific) - Min Louis Farrakhan sample

Nga Tangata Whenua whakarongo mai (indigenous people listen) Kia kaha kia mau ki to whenua (be strong hold your land) Kia toa kia mau ki to wairua (be strong hold your spirit) Mana motuhake (self control) time inaianei (now) so wake up In the system man we have fe mash it up Hell no I won't stop or even chill out With the vision I'll go bug out The imperialist colonialist all the unwelcome guests Who lack respect we come fe make it correct Put it in spec in view what we got ta do Free our mind cleanse our bodies from their ways You been told I've been told a long time ago By the whiteman his ways are the ways to go But I know his ways I'll neva follow Righteous he is not thats what we got we got ta know

Whakakotahi!

Nga Tangata Whenua o te Ao, whakarongo, Kia tu ki te whawhai nga mea kino o tenei Ao, Kia kaha, Kia mau ki nga taonga o koutou tipuna, Kia toa, te ihi te wehi, Ka whawhai tonu matou ake, ake, ake, tonu e, Whakakotahi

(indigenous people of the world, listen! Be strong in the fight against wickedness, be strong, Hold the treasures of our ancestors, be a warrior, the life force invoking awe, we will fight on forever, and eva, and eva, Be One!)

So it's come to pass and we've seen evidently Similar things in many continent and country North to the south the east to the west It's a plague fuck their conquest Niggers junglebunnies coons they call us backward Forward we vision truth come in this lesson Them give us a white god through a white Jesus Christ The bible and its virtue but look at what they do They a raped our mothers and continue to kill But my spirit is strong we gwan do what we will Life is to be lived for for truth to show improve So do away with the mischief in this release we'll move Forward neva backward

(...Greed arrogance, cause you to pollute the earth, pollute the air, pollute the water... ) - Min Louis Farrakhan sample