Nannys House - Tipene, Tyna

Tyna

I texted the cuzzie, said cuzzie I’ll be there like later tonight

He was like, chur cuz you know I got mahi I’ll leave on that light'

So later that night I pull up in the drive I can see by that light

Ain’t nobody home, but that pot on the stove and I’m feeling alright

That boil-up the meanest, after that feed I crashed out on the couch

Shout-out the cuzzie we all the same, all the same what we about

Whanau come first we learnt from our Nanny no locks on this house aye!

We learnt from our Nanny, we learnt from our Papa no locking you out aye!

Slide up to the Coast, cause I need a break

Call that Maori time cause we never late

Sick of city lights, stresses elevating

I’m back on the Coast stress alleviate

Im back on the Coast as we celebrate

Im back on the Coast and I penetrate

It’s Maori time, Maori time never late…

I told her cuzzie, cuzzie I’ll be over later

Cause life been up and down like an elevator

I’ll be coming home I’ma charge It up

When I get home is that us or what

Doors is wide open at my Nanny house

Fridge is wide open at my Nanny house

Whanau always on at my Nanny house

Turn up we get turn up at my Nanny house

Tipene

Nanny’s House

Might get a mihi at the door

By the Ariki on the wall

Feel the whariki on the floor

Hear the tamariki down the hall

On the chilling with the cuz buzz

Full of love and it’s warm

Smelling like fresh cut lawns

Feel it in my chest I’m drawn

To the only place I rest I’m from

I’m a coastie!

Open flame lamb tail with the toastie

Give the fire a stoking

Out there life’s kinda crazy

Nans kai’s always amazing and cozy

She’s the only one that knows me

She the only one a bro needs

Like the old Humber 80 with choke she

Picks me up on the low key talks to me slowly

She nicknamed me Georgie

True story of the west side hori

And I never had time to be naughty

Couldn’t afford TV’s or CD’s

But I don’t remember ever feeling boring

«Boy, better get outside and milk that cow

Pig bucket feed that sow

Get outside and hoot that owl

In the garden with that plow»

Always had mahi round the house

When I feel like chucking in the towel

I think about my nanny and my papa

And how hard they worked

For us to get enough ta eat

I rousey with the aunties and the uncles

On the handpiece with the gumboots

And the mutton cloth singlets

Prince Tui Teka through the speakers

Whanau full on singers

And it’s all about manaaki

Korero and the Kai so hearty

Everybody sarky in the markie

Pulling heartstrings like the gat at the party

And he’s the baddest the cuzzy

Brought up on the mahi and the rugby

When I’m feeling kinda teets and it’s ugly

I always go back coz I know nan loves me

She was proud to be Maori

But she wasn’t allowed to be Maori

But she showed us all how to be Maori

Show us all what it means now to be Maori

Now I know why

She wore a moko kauwai

Why we always go diving at low tide

Why we dressed up with a bow tie

So I never let a day go by… and bro I.

Doors is wide open at my Nanny house

Fridge is wide open at my Nanny house

Whanau always on at my Nanny house

Turn up we get turn up at my Nanny house

Doors are wide open at my Nanny house

Fridge is wide open at my Nanny house

Whanau always on at my Nanny house

Turn up we get turn up at my Nanny house

Take your shoes off at my nanny’s house

Boy go do the lawns at my nanny’s house

Get the wooden spoon at my nanny’s house

Boy get to your room at my nanny’s house