AMAR GALAR HAR MUSIC & LYRIC JASIM UDDIN SINGER SABINA YESMIN www.jasimuddin.org video

My necklace is unhcoked and taken away, O Beauty! Why would I wear the necklace again? When my bosom friend is away from the world. (You) Tell my friend, when she comes Radha has lost her life In agony of separation from Krishna. Nobody has worked out the history of Bengali folk-songs scientifically, but it is not difficult to tread the main lines of it by commonsense. The earliest kind of songs originates in the cries of men at work on a common task-pulling about ashore, or rolling legs, or doing something else that needs concerted rhythmical effort. Such songs, if they can be called songs, are essentially nothing but a single rhythmical line. The words may change, but the line is repeated with its stresses unaltered; there is nothing that can be called a melody. Notice how its cadences are rounded and curved, and how by the two lines the monotony is slightly broken. Next, three or four lines are rhymed together and the tune gains in variety as they rise and fall : Amar galar har khule nelo Ogo Lalite Amar har pare ar ki lav habe O jar pran bandhu nai Brojete Bandhu jadi ashe deshe O Rai Krishna soge prun tajilo Kalidaher kulete. Jasim Uddin