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Lyric and background history of song dhire bondhu go
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This page contains lyric of Tagore song dhire bondhu go and its transliteration in English with background history. Background of the song includes the place and date of the song written by Rabindranath, name of the newspaper or magazine the song was first published in and the name of the person who had prepared the notation or swaralipi. This page also contains the musical composition of song like parjaay, taal, raag and ango.
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Musical composition and background history of the song:
Parjaay: Puja (46)
Upa-parjaay: Bondhu
Taal: Chhoy Matra
Raag: Pilu
Written on: 1915 (Phalgun 1321)
Published in: Sabujpatra
Collection: Phalguni
Swarabitan: 7 (Phalguni)
Notation by: Indira Debi Chowdhurani
Notes: This song was written in the spring time 1915.
The drama ‘Phalguni’ was enacted for the first time at the drama room of the Shantiniketan Ashram on 25th April 1915. Several persons have recalled their exquisite experience of listening to Rabindranath’s own voice in this drama where He had sung for a blind minstrel. Once the poet had expressed His inability to Pratima Devi –
… I possess no longer the voice of my youth, I do not know what to sing.
But Pratima Devi has written –
… We do not know how that voice may have sounded, yet the one people have experienced in Phalguni was just mesmerizing. The voice of the blind mistrel has keenly knocked the door of the intellectual audience.
Sita Debi, eldest daughter of Ramananda Chattopadhyay, in her ‘Punya-smriti’ has added –
… The song of the blind mistrel seems to be ringing still now.
Rathindranath in his ‘Pitri-smriti’ has elaborated –
… The scene where the blind misterl slowly progressed towards the dark cave while singing the song ‘Dhire bondhu dhire dhire …’ was particularly a matter of attraction for the audience. It was 1916, and still my father’s voice did have the reverberation. The audience could hardly restrain themselves as the song would fade out slowly and he would vanish behind the screen at the backstage. …
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Transliteration in English
Dhire bondhu go, dhire dhire Chalo tomar bijano mondire. Jaani ne path, naai je aalo, Bhitor baahir kaaloy kaalo, Tomar charonoshabdo baron korechhi Aaj ei aronyogobhire. Dhire bondhu, dhire dhire. Chalo andhokarer teere teere. Cholbo aami nishithorate Tomar haawar ishaarate, Tomar basanogandho baron korechhi Aaj ei basontosomire.
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