Songs of the Long White Cloud

Songs that speaks of places across Aotearoa — big and small, well-known and obscure. Take a tour or jump in wherever you are right now.

Play all (73 items) 4h 37m
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Six months In a Leaky Boat Split Enz
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Christchurch (In Cashel St I wait) The Exponents
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Dominion Road The Mutton Birds
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Land of Plenty OMC
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Riverhead GoldenHorse
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Tomorrow night The Front Lawn
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Today, Tomorrow, Timaru Deja Voodoo
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Verona Elemeno P
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One tree hill U2
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Me at the museum, you at the wintergarden Tiny Ruins
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Aotearoa Stan Walker, Ria Hall
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A thing well made The Mutton Birds
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Te Aro Nadia Reid
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Andy The Front Lawn
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Hanson St Pt. 2 (A River) Nadia Reid
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Snow on the Desert Road The Windy City Strugglers
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Otaki Formyula
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Its Akaroa’s Fault Dudley Benson
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Taumaruinui (On the main truck line) Peter Cape
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Cuba Street Polka Dot Dot Dot
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Taranaki The Warratahs
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Pukemiro Al Hunter
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Wakamarina Tamburlaine
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Dunedin The Changing Same
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Oh baby bear Edmund Cake
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Te Ahi Kai Po Ria Hall
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Closer Fly My Pretties
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Wellington The Mutton Birds
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Marion Bates Reality Tono and the Finance Company
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Paekakariki Sheba Williams
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Cape Turnagain The Waratahs

The location was named by Captain Cook, the song composed by one of New Zealand's best loved country bands, and one of its best loved poets.

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Aramoana Barbara Manning
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Pokarekare Ana Aotearoa Maori Chorale

Written between 1917 - 1921 by East Coast Māori songwriter Paraire Tomoana for his soon to be wife, Kuini Ripeka Raerena, this song has become an unofficial national anthem for Aotearoa.

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Tutira Mai Nga Iwi Dennis Marsh
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Ru Ana Te Whenua Alien Weaponry
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Tea at Te Kuti Ash Burton
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Ramblings from the Anatoki Salmonella Dub
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On the Map Rugged and Wylde
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Cay’s Crays Fat Freddys Drop
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Sailing to the other side (InterIslander) The Warratahs

This was written as an advertisement for the Picton-Wellington ferry but became a big hit for the Warratahs — it may even be their best known song.

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Geraldine The Exponents

Jordan Luck formed his band The Dance Exponents in his hometown high school, and this song is a nostalgic reminisce about long days of summer, playing on the tennis court, and swimming in the Gorge.

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Opoutere The Nukes
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Ruaimoko Maisey Rika
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Parihaka Tim Finn
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Peaceful Man Little Bushman
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State houses by the river The Eastern
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Murder on Manners St The Mockers
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Auckland Tonight The Androids
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Mean to me Crowded House
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Happity Fatcat & Fishface
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My mother's locked out of the house Fatcat & Fishface
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On Cashel Street Transistors
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McKenzie and his Dog Brendan Dugan
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Ballad of the Waitaki The Plainsmen
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The Battle of the Waikato The Howard Morrison Quartet
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Hawera Rhombus
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Merrilands Domain Goodshirt
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Helensville SJD
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Alfred & Church SWIDT
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Suicide 2 Proud Scum
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Years Gone By Avantdale Bowling Club
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Opo the Crazy Dolphin Pat McMinn
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Adelphi Apartments Tiny Ruins
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Henry Fabulous / Arabia
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Auckland CBD, Pt. 2 Lawrence Arabia
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Southside David Dallas
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Rakiura Al Fraser
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Davy Lowston Phil Garland
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Small Town Sam Cullen
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Pakete Whero Sir Howard Morrison
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In the Neighborhood Sisters Underground