Here's an easy way to learn the colours of the rainbow in Te Reo (Maori language). As sung by the South New Brighton Primary School, again recorded at the 1999 Schools Cultural Festival in Christchurch.

Nga Tae ('Nga' meaning more than one, gives the pural meaning to a word, 'Te tae' would be 'the colour' - 'te' meaning 'the')

Kahurangi the colour of the sky
Kakariki the colour of the grass
And there's Kowhai, the lovely kowhai tree
With its yellow flowers for us to see
Kahurangi, kakariki, kowhai, nga tae

Ma is white as the whitest, whitest snow
Whero red like the rata flower's glow
Mix them together and what do you think?
You get Mawhero, the colour we call pink.
Kahurangi, kakariki, kowhai, nga tae

Black is night time and pango is its name
Brown is Uru, purauri means the same
Kiwikiwi is grey like rainy skies
Karaka orange like flames of distant fires
Kahurangi, kakariki, kowhai, nga tae