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This is a resource for school teachers planning multi-subject school projects.
If I haven't got the tune to a song here, and you don't know it, ask me in an email.
Or ask me about songs possibly relating to other New Zealand projects you are planning.
(Umm... sometimes my answer may be "I don't know.")
John.Archer@xtra.co.nz

Sealing, Whaling


Gold mining


Lost Maori land


Gum digging

Back-country settlers


Po! Po! Davy Lowston, Blood Red Roses, Come All You Tonguers, Soon may the Wellerman come
I Only Spoke Portuguese
, Across The Line
, Ko'rareka , Seal Children, Beautiful coast of NZ

Gin & Raspberry, Bright Fine Gold, By the Dry Cardrona, Farewell to the Gold,
Hills of Coromandel, Kauwara Gold, Stable Lad, Packing My Things

E Pā Tō Hau, Te Kiri Ngutu, Te Kooti, Hine E Hine, Tika Tama, Te Wai O Whanganu, Hoea Rā Ngā Waka,
Te Wai o Whanganui
, Battle of the Waikato, E Tu Stand Proud

Farewell to the Gumfields, Black Swans

Dulcie and the Moa
, MacKenzie, Hakaru Races, Mihiwaka, Stable Lad, Scrub and Blackberry
Rainbird In the Tea-tree
, Barb Wire Annie, Down the Hall on a Saturday night, Eel Song
 

Coastal shipping

Coal mining



World War One


Alcohol

Sir Apirana Ngata

Hunting, fishing

The 1930s Depression

Toia Mai Te Waka, Ngahuru's Lament for his Canoe, Auckland to the Bluff, Crossing the Kaipara Bar,
Mahurangi Regatta, Matangi, Ghost Gulls Of Picton, The Orpheus, The Philomena D, Fishfinger song

Down in the Brunner Mine , Coaltown Blues

Karangatia Rā, Hoea Rā Te Waka Nei, Te Ope Tuatahi, Tipirere, Pokarekare Ana,
In Memoriam, Promises to Keep

The Day the Pub Burned Down, By the Dry Cardrona, Poropeihana, Charlie's Bash


Karangatia Rā, Kia ora ra koutou, Te Kirimi, Poropeihana, Te Ope Tuatahi

In My Little Whare, Eel Song, Black Matai, Ka Rū, Ka Rū, She'll Be Right

My Man's Gone Now, Mihiwaka, Down on My Luck

Politics, protest songs


Train travel


Animals



Sheep

Farming


World War 2



Urban drift


Rugby

Right Wing Articulate Rebel, Send the Boats Away, Shaky Isles, Putting on the Squeeze,
My Old Man's an All Black
, Damn the Dam

Big Bull Yank, Okaihau Express, My Man's Gone Now, Kiwi Express, Pillows of the Dead,
Taumarunui
, The Wreck of the Old 2-2-7, Postholes

Paikea, Tahora Nui, Spider In The Bath, Opo the Dolphin, Remember Young Opo, Pelorus Jack,
Dulcie and the Moa
, Tarakihi the Locust, Tihori mai te Rangi, Pukeko in a Ponga Tree
Pūrerehua
, Hiwi the Kiwi, Sticky Beak the Kiwi, Damn the Dam

McKenzie's Ghost, The Old Mackenzie Trail, Up the Mangapapa, Gutboard Blues

Apple Pickers' Ball, Rainbird In the Tea-tree, Te Kirimi, Gumboot Song, Thompson's Bus,
Super-Man
, Lady loader-Driver, My Tractor, Postholes, Puketapu

Now is the Hour, The Dugout in Matruh, E Te Hokowhitu A Tū, Au, E Ihu, Arohaina Mai,
Maori Battalion, Blue Smoke, Matangi, Hitara Waha Huka, The Sands of the Nile,`Rolling Wheels
(More to be added - Saida Bint, Dear Mr Fraser)


She'll Be Right Mate, Ten Guitars, Poi-E, Matangi, State House Song, Kia Kaha Nga Iwi

On The Ball, Ko Niu Tireni, Rugby, Racing & Beer, Big Bad Don, Ka Mate Ka Mate,
My Old Man's an All Black
, She'll Be Right Mate, Ferdinand, Kapa o Pango,

Tramping


Post-war emigration

Relationships, babies,
marriage breakdowns


Grieving

For Anzac Day


Hymns


Towns


Christmas in NZ

In the Tararua Ranges - No Boots at All - A Fast Pair of Skis - No More Double-Bunking
The Marathon Song - On the Slopes of Mt Alpha - The Terror of the Teraneek

Now is the Hour, Out to Otago, Matangi, Oh Mum

Kotiro Maori, Pokarekare Ana, I Only Spoke Portuguese, By the Dry Cardrona, Minnie Dean,
Pakete Whero, Pretty Girl, Ara! Ka Titiro, He Pūru Taitama, Hamilton, Invercargill, Mum,
Te Piriti, Puketapu, Black Matai, Taumarunui, Invercargill

He Wawata, Hine E Hine, Ho-ki Hoki, Rimurimu,

God Defend New Zealand, Goodnight Ruby, In Memoriam, Promises to Keep

Au, E Ihu, E Te Hokowhitu A Tū, E Te Tamaiti, E Toru Nga Mea, Koutou Katoa Ra, Mārie Te Pō,
Tama Ngakau Marie, Whakaaria Mai

I've Been Everywhere Man
, Hamilton, Tea at Te Kuiti, Taumarunui,
Invercargill
, Billy the Bus (Stewart Is)

Pukeko in a Ponga Tree, Upside Down Christma, Te Harinui
, Sticky Beak the Kiwi,
Mārie Te Pō, Kiwiana Christmas, Christmas Begins With You, One on a Tractor,
Jersey Cow Came Mooing, The Southern Cross Looks Down

Published on web, November 2006