Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Just some lyrics...


Voyage 2 - The Essential World Beat Collection
(EMI Recorded Music Asia Pacific + Warner Strategic Marketing | 2002)

Punjab by Karunesh
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aao huzoor tumko, sitaron mein le chalo
dil jhoom jaaye aise, bahaaron mein le chaloon ,
aao huzoor tumko sitaron mein le chalo
dil jhoom jaaye aise, huzoor aao,
(aaaa, aaaa.....)
hai re mere, daatia javaan...
babul tere, ginane lejaania aye...
hai re mere, daadia javaan...
nahelate jo teri laado noeeee,
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
babul tere..
(nehelate...)
pi jo teri laa(do) 'tiyan jab miya , des tod diya
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
pi jo teri laado (ginane lejaania aye) noeeee.....
hai re mere , daadia javaan...
babul tere, ginane lejaania aye...
hai re mere , daadia javaan...
nahelate jo teri laado (ginane lejaania) noeeee,
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
babul tere..
(nehelate...)
pi jo teri laado 'tiyan jab miya , des tod diya
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
pi jo teri laado (ginane lejaania aye)noeeee.....
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Lyrics credit to Hamsa.

I decided to post the lyrics to this song here, since it's hard to find sites with lyrics to this song...

From what I gathered, this song starts off with Hindi but the most of the rest are in Punjabi. It's about the grief of a daughter who's getting married and it's an old Punjabi folk song. The music is amazing, it sounds more like a "remix" song when the tunes are actually originally created by Karunesh. Karunesh (meaning "compassion" in Sanskrit) is a German man originally named Bruno Reuter. You've got to hear it for yourself...

4 comments:

igotsixtoes said...

By any chance do you know the actual person who sang the song in this track?

Andy said...

Nope, I have no idea who's the woman in the song. Btw, what happened to the rest of your 4 toes? :P

igotsixtoes said...

Ah, would be great to know who the person was. I should explain myself properly, igotsixtoes on the left foot. I have 11 toes to be more accurate but "igoteleventoes@yahoo.com" toes was taken by my evil twin. =P

Varun Prabhakar said...

i got redirected to this post while finding some info about karunesh...the guy who composed the song "Punjab"...i would like to point out that it goes something like "hai ve mere dadea rabba...babul tere kinna ne le jaaniyan...hai ve mere dadea rabba...mahelain vichon teri laado"
which essentially translates to (literally)..."o my beloved god...o my father..who's gonna take away your darling daughter from the luxuries of your palace"...wish you a happy time listening to such lovely music...cheers