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Lyric and background history of song jodi tor dak shune

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This page contains lyric of Tagore song jodi tor dak shune 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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Parjaay: Swadesh (3)

Taal: Dadra

Style: Baul Sur

Anga: Baul

Written on: 1905

Published in: Bhandar

Swarabitan: 46

Notation by: Indira Debi Chowdhurani

Bhanga Gaan

Notes: In support to the movement of Banga Bhanga Rodh . Derived from a Bangla lokgeeti "…Harinaam Diye Jogot…". Jiboner Jhorapaata (Sarala Devi) pg-33.

Shantimoyee Dutta, daughter of Sitaram Tatwabhushan, a pundit of Brahmo Samaj, writes in her memoir, Mohilader smritite Rabindranath -

I saw Rabindranath in the year 1906. ... I used to take music lessons at Brahmo-vidyalaya. ... We were summoned at the house of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose which was at the other side of the street. Rabindranath will present some newly written songs and the girls would pick them from his voice. ... Amala Das, sister of CR Das sat in front of the organ. The poet took out a small notebook from his pocket and sang - Jodi tor daak shune ... and Ebaar tor mora gaange ...

At first he sang solo songs and then Amala Das accompanied him. His free-flowing tenor voice appearing pretty feminine yet his mellow voice seemed to reverberate the entire room. We, the girls stood dazzled with the exquisite glamour of the singer and completely mesmerised with the unmatched beauty of the melody.

An ex-student of Shantiniketan, Kamakhyanath Roy, in his book Gayak Rabindranath has described -

... There was a Japanese organ at the corner. Gurudev used to play the organ and teach us the song 'Ekla cholo re ...' . He had sung the song numerous times and tried to teach the students the song.

Rabindranath had been to Italy in June 1926 on invitation from Musoulini. On 20th June he had delivered a lecture in a huge auditorium of a music school at Turin. It was followed by a song recital by Slavalipo Evitzka, a lady poet. She sang three Bengali songs - 'Hey mor debota ...', ' Ami chini go chini tomare ...' and 'Jodi tor daak shune ...'. The songs were accompanied in violin by Prof. Giaccone and Tympanist Meana.

Nirmalkumari Mahalanabish has mentioned in her book Kobir Sange Europe -

... The native colour of the song was quite identifiable although presented in a foreign style. Especially the song 'Jodi tor daak shune ...' seemed the one that we are very much acquainted of. The rapt audience being introduced to the poet's song greeted him clapping for a long time.


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Transliteration in English

Jodi tor daak shune keu na aase tabe ekla chalo re.
Ekla chalo,   ekla chalo,   ekla chalo,   ekla chalo re.
Jodi keu katha na koy,   ore ore o abhaaga,
Jodi sobai thaake mukh phiraye   sabai kare bhoy -
Tabe paran khule
O tui   mukh phute tor moner katha ekla balo re.
Jodi   sabai phire jaay,   ore ore o abhaaga,
Jodi   gahon pathe jaabar kaale keu phire na chaay -
Tabe   pather knaata
O tui   raktomaakha charontale ekla dalo re.
Jodi   aalo na dhare,   ore ore o abhaaga,
Jodi   jhar-baadole aandhar raate   duwar dey ghare -
Tabe   bajraanale
Aapon   buker  pnaajor jwaalie niye ekla jwalo re.

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