"Swinging on the Rata Vine."
Did your mother ever let you Roam 011 the hills when the day was fine? Did you ever know a gully Where there hung a rata vine? Swinging, swinging. Is knowledge of that pleasure thine— To swing upon a rata vim , ? My mother used to let us wander To seek clematis flowers,to twine For decoration round our hats, And to swing upon the rata vine. Swinging, swinging. Oil, that those clays again were mine To swing upon "the rata vine ! Zealandia's happy children we. .--^\ Born in this country so divine: It made our arms and bodies strong— Swinging on the rata vine. m^m )¥ " Swinging, swinging. jjflr * I love to sing of 'Auld Lang Of swinging on the rata vine. —A.S. in the Post.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8778, 8 June 1907, Page 2
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128"Swinging on the Rata Vine." Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8778, 8 June 1907, Page 2
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