Yeah I came like Kupe

Yeah I came like Kupe (like Kupe)

Journey on a Waka hourua that came right through here

(Right through here)

From Rangiatea Taputapuatea runs through here

(Runs through here)

Hawaiki nui Hawaikiroa

Hawaiki Pamamao

Indigenous Pao Pao Pao

Yeah I came like Kupe (like Kupe)

Journey on a Waka hourua that came right through here

(Right through here)

From Rangiatea Taputapuatea runs through here

(Runs through here)

Hawaiki nui Hawaikiroa

Hawaiki Pamamao

Indigenous Pao Pao Pao

Kupe I heard that he came to chase a wheke (chase a wheke)

And the name that came from his wahine (his wahine)

This probly wouldn't be our home at all (home at all)

Our home wouldn't be called Aotearoa (called Aotearoa)

The first Polynesian navigators Innovators

Purakau passed down through the generations

They say around 900 AD

Doesn't really matter if your ain't Māori

Kupe the man be the true OG (Be the real OG, be the triple OG)

I know every tribe has korero about Kupe

But who really sure kaore au te mohio

(Who really knows who really knows)

All I know one things consistent

The Ariki came from the distance

He was the first don't get it twisted

Yeah I came like Kupe (like Kupe)

Journey on a Waka hourua that came right through here

(Right through here)

From Rangiatea Taputapuatea runs through here

(Runs through here)

Hawaiki nui Hawaikiroa

Hawaiki Pamamao

Indigenous Pao Pao Pao

Yeah I came like Kupe

Yeah I came like Kupe (like Kupe)

Journey on a Waka hourua that came right through here

(Right through here)

From Rangiatea Taputapuatea runs through here

(Runs through here)

Hawaiki nui Hawaikiroa

Hawaiki Pamamao

Indigenous Pao Pao Pao

Yeah I came like Kupe (like Kupe)

Journey on a Waka hourua that came right through here

(Right through here)

From Rangiatea Taputapuatea runs through here

(Runs through here)

Hawaiki nui Hawaikiroa

Hawaiki Pamamao

Indigenous Pao Pao Pao

Kupe I heard that he came to chase a wheke (chase a wheke)

And the name that came from his wahine (his wahine)

This probly wouldn't be our home at all (home at all)

Our home wouldn't be called Aotearoa (called Aotearoa)

The first Polynesian navigators Innovators

Purakau passed down through the generations

They say around 900 AD

Doesn't really matter if your ain't Māori

Kupe the man be the true OG (Be the real OG, be the triple OG)

I know every tribe has korero about Kupe

But who really sure kaore au te mohio

(Who really knows who really knows)

All I know one things consistent

The Ariki came from the distance

He was the first don't get it twisted

Yeah I came like Kupe (like Kupe)

Journey on a Waka hourua that came right through here

(Right through here)

From Rangiatea Taputapuatea runs through here

(Runs through here)

Hawaiki nui Hawaikiroa

Hawaiki Pamamao

Indigenous Pao Pao Pao