Aotearoa
C - G - C
C F
Aotearoa the land that I love,
G C
soft breezes blowing, blue skies
above.
C F
Friendly faces greet me with eyes so true,
C - G C
Aotearoa more and more I love you.
F C
1. Each time I leave you my heart seems to say :
G C
Oh, why must I leave you, why can’t I stay
F C
and
walk by your ocean so clear and so blue ?
G C
Aotearoa,
oh, how I miss you !
+ CHORUS + C - F - C - G - C
F C
2. I pray that someday I will see you once more,
G C
to
gaze at your mountains that sweep to the shore.
F
C
Once more I see old friends, they are waiting for me,
G
C
for land of the Long
White Cloud, you’re special to me.
+ CHORUS (3x) + F
C - G C
+ Aotearoa more and more I love you.
(Isla Grant)