Daddys Song from Toops Loops by Piripi Whaanga Whanau

Daddy’s song (Sydney 2003)

“I did not know who you really were. The man with the rat tat tat of the kete flax bag. In the darkness of the night, or the balla-looloos, ‘What have we here?’

(Chorus)
We've come a long way now
just you and me.
daddy and daughter
a class act team.
The friend, Id never dreamed you'd be.

The man who put St Benedict’s on the map, cycling to and fro a school that learned Whaanga’s have different rules. So make way for us or we’ll find a groove, and chip away at it, till you’re sorry that you didn’t make room.

(Chorus)

Come a long way now, just you and me. Daddy and daughter, a class act team. You were the friend, I never dreamed you’d be.”

Farmer, no Whaanga, you know, the harbour
from whence our people came waka-fied,
Human toe cat's paw, that's how we got Taupo,
encouragement to share our knowledge with all.

(Chorus)

Little time soldier, we made him march every night,
hear you put us to sleep with your doorway delights.
Shared your lungs, breathed in us the song
that I'm eternally grateful for.

Loved discipline, sometimes too harsh,
but enough for me to go on, ensuring I'm a mummy who'll last.
Times changed when I was only a decade, grew up fast,
cause you needed me and to move on from your past.

The daddy I never knew grew into a flower, not overnight.
But good things take time just like our sharing of fine and cheap wines.
Thank goodness for change and life's pains,
cause without that past I wouldn't know you today.

(Chorus

• Alternative
• Indigenous roots
• Maori
• acoustic guitar
• multicultural
• te reo maori
• New Zealand