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A lament

A lament

This lament, ‘E tō hau’, was composed by Rangiamoa for her cousin Te Wano of Ngāti Apakura and Waikato. Like many such songs, it compares the tears of those mourning to rain falling from the sky. This extract includes the reference to rain.

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Sound Archives / Nga Taonga Korero (Auckland)
Reference: Nga Moteatea/DAT 401

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