Lyric and background history of song kotha hote shunte jeno pai

This page contains lyric of Tagore song kotha hote shunte jeno pai 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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Kotha hote shunte jeno paai -
Aakashe aakashe bale 'Jaai'.
Paatay paatay ghaase ghaase   jege otthe dirghoshwaase
'Haay, taara naai, taara naai'.
Kato diner kato byatha    haaway chharay byakulata.
Chole jaawar path je dike   se dik-paane animikhe
Aaj phire chaai, phire chaai.

• Lyric and background history with taal, raag, parjaay. Transliterate in English.
• Bengali notation / swaralipi
• Staff notation (Western)
• English translation
• Hindi translation