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Thread #15111   Message #711557
Posted By: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
16-May-02 - 09:47 AM
Thread Name: ADD/Origins: Now is the Hour / Haere ra
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Now is the Hour
http://members.tripod.com/NZFolkie/poatarau/

this site has all the info, it was a piano tune published in a book by Palings, called Swiss Cradle Song, that became the Maori farewell song,

INMHO definitely one of 10 songs everyone should know, not to mention 50