Kingi Ihaka's folk-song adaption of the Twelve Days of Christmas has been chorused in back-seats on long Xmas drives and post-festive living rooms since 1981:
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me...
Twelve piupius swinging,
Eleven haka lessons,
Ten juicy fish heads,
Nine sacks of pipis,
Eight plants of puha,
Seven eels a swimming,
Six pois a twirling,
Five - big - fat - pigs!!!!
Four huhu grubs,
Three flax kits,
Two kumara,
And a Pukeko in a Ponga Tree!
A must for every Xmas stocking is the brightly coloured book of the same name, illustrated by Dick Frizzell.
