Ki te kōrero a Tuturu, i te wā i ō rātou pakeke e ora ana, kāore e waiatatia te whiti tuatahi nei me tūpono rawa ki te mate o tētehi o roto i te kāwei o ngā Te Heuheu. Koirā te take, ki tana whakamārama, i tīpokapoka ai te mau o ngā kupu me ngā rārangi o tēnei whiti i ētehi, ā he tokomaha kāore tonu i mōhio ki te kaupapa tika o te whiti nei (M 2004:264). / According to Tuturu, in the lifetime of their elders, this first verse was never sung unless the occasion was the death of one of the Te Heuheu lineage. That was the reason, as he explained, why only some words and lines of this verse were known to some people, and many never learnt the correct text of this verse.

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