Bhasaili Re FAMOUS BHATIALI SONG URDU & BENGALI MUSIC & LYRIC JASIM UDDIN SINGER ALAMGIR video

One of the most famous and extremely popular bhatiyali songs is from the collection of the renowned poet and the folk music exponent Jasim Uddin (1904-76). Few Bengali poets have loved the villages of Bengal more and few have expressed in poems and songs the simple joys and sorrows of the villagers more poignantly and feelingly amay bhasaili rey amay dubaili rey akul dariyar bujhi kul nairey kul nai kinar nai naiko nadir padi tumi sabdhanetey chalaiyo majhi amar bhang tari rey (You've set me adrift You've sunk me The endless waters have no shore Limitless, with no shores, the waters have no banks O row with care boatman, my riven boat.) Our country of East Bengal is very beautiful. So many poets-many makers of tunes, are lying under the shade of the trees, under the roofs of the farmers' broken-down cottages, in the depth of the forest, in the shadowy corners of the jute fields, in a thousand moods and a thousand postures to paint the hopes and aspirations, the sorrows and the happiness of the land. There is not a single village where there is not a poet-not a single little community without its singer; and their songs pour forth incessantly as the bird-music echoes in the breeze. In our country the leaves of the trees and the changing movement of the paddy-fields make a colourful embroidery, and always there is pageant of green-vivid green, cool green, dim green, bright green, dull green, cloudy green, green that is blue almost to blackness; shade after shade of entrancing green such as cannot be found anywhere else on earth. In the folk-tunes of the country the greenness speaks