Pepeketua - Kiwi Frog

Chorus 1:
I'm a Kiwi Frog and I don't have no croak.
My Aussie cuzzies they do sure go for broke.
So, if you hear someone growling in your pond, raark
They're from over the ditch they don't really belong here.
Also we're diff'rent 'cos we don't have taddies.
We're totally awesome, groundbreaking raddies!

Kiwi Frog, no croak, no croak.
No taddies either it ain' no joke!
A frog without a tadpole? How can this be?
'Cos I'm a unique taonga frog-kiwi!

Verse 1:
Once upon a time in Aotearoa.
Home of Haast’s Eagle and plenty of Moa,
my ancestors evolved and we surely broke the mould
With our moist wet skin and our blood so cold.
We went straight to frogs right from the egg,
It’s not a lie, I ain’t pullin’ your leg!
We also decided not to waste our breath
With all this croakin’ lark way too much stress
We hardly make a sound, we’re very quiet
And of course we have a very particular diet.

Chorus 2:
I'm a Kiwi Frog and I don't have no croak.
My Aussie cuzzies they do sure go for broke.
So, if you hear someone growling in your pond, raark
They're from over the ditch they don't really belong here.
Also we're diff'rent 'cos we don't have taddies.
We're totally awesome, groundbreaking raddies!

Kiwi Frog, no croak, no croak.
No taddies either it ain' no joke!
A frog without a tadpole? How can this be?
'Cos I'm a unique taonga frog-kiwi!

Verse 2:
When the waka first arrived, there were kiore on board,
Three kinds of Kiwi Frogs are now extinct, because they were gnawed
By those Polynesian Rats.
And then the Pakeha came and released bucketloads of ferals,
So our lives became a series of devastating perils.
We once used to live in a great many places
But we largely disappeared with very few traces.
Now we only live in protected reserves
Like islands and other places where there ain’t no feral scourge.

Bridge:
Unlike our bros from Aussie who don't live long.
We can go for decades, if we’re fit and strong.
And if things go well and we shine and thrive,
We might even live until we’re thirty-five!

Chorus 3:
I'm a Kiwi Frog and I don't have no croak.
My Aussie cuzzies they do sure go for broke.
So, if you hear someone growling in your pond, raark
They're from over the ditch they don't really belong here.
Also we're diff'rent 'cos we don't have taddies.
We're totally awesome, groundbreaking raddies!

Kiwi Frog, no croak, no croak.
No taddies either it ain' no joke!
A frog without a tadpole? How can this be?
'Cos I'm a unique taonga frog-kiwi!

Coda:
I'm Pepeketua, I'm Pepeketua,
I'm Pepeketua, I'm Pepeketua,
I'm Pepeketua, I'm Pepeketua,
I'm Pepeketua, I'm Pepeketua.