Re: Songs in Malayalam
Posted: 2015-08-28, 19:05
Nice song, eskandar bhai! I had no idea it existed until you posted it.
Also, since today is Onam (or Thiruvonam to be more precise), here's an Onam song called "Kannanthali Muttam" from Njanonnu Parayatte (1982):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJ9G_kTyJ0
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?6414 followed by http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?6413
For the goddess of the Earth on Thiruvonam in late August,
Common lantanas, large men's earrings,
Little tree plants, earrings,
Thumba flowers, a sweet smile,
Jasmine flowers to decorate hair...
A courtyard of bicolor Persian violets, a thumba in the courtyard,
What gathered the thumbas in the tuft of hair was a precious neem tree,
A precious neem tree.
Costumes danced on a branch of the neem tree.
The costumes sang.
A flute on some lips is gathering ears,
Gathering honeyed ears.
The night of the full moon is shining
With measuring rods for rain(?), peacock feather headdresses, timid women,
Timid women,
And trembling wings of gold.
എഴുതാൻ അറിഞ്ഞുകൂടാ. എനിക്ക് ചിലതുമുണ്ട് പറഞ്ഞുതരാൻ. ഒന്ന് വരൂ, എനിക്ക് കാണാൻ! ശ്വസം മുട്ടി മരിക്കുന്നതിന് മുൻപ്...മാധവേട്ടന്റെ...!
ezhuthaan arrinjnj(uk)uuTaa. enikk(u) chilathuNT(u) parranjnj(u)tharaan. onn(u) varuu, enikk(u) kaaNaan! Svaasam muTTi marikkunnathin(u) munp(u)...MaadhavETTante...!
I don't know how to write (this). I have some things to tell you. Come here so I can see you! Before I suffocate to death...your...!
A star in the sky, a flower below,
A flower below,
Golden moonlight,
Golden moonlight
Is decorating the flower and blossom with a chill.
Did the golden moonlight's cheeks puff up?
Are its eyes puffing up?
As for the flower, the tips of its eyes call out for a long time.
The calls are echoing.
The calls are echoing.
And another song praising Kerala called "Maamalakalkkappurathu" from Ninamaninja Kalpadukal (1963):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfgZle4DNU
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?188
On the other side of the great mountains, there's a
Land called Malayalam, there's a little land
Called Malayalam, wearing emerald-colored silk.
There's a land where forests and gardens
Clap and play in the dreamy moonlight.
In that region where lakes and rivers smile,
Embroidered with paddy fields decorated by the sun,
There's a house like a bird cage, there's
A little house like a bird cage on the lotus shore,
In the shade of sprouting coconut trees.
At the threshold of the house, there's a woman
Lighting a lamp and waiting for my return.
There's a woman with charcoal blue eyes and a
Mole on her cheek the color of a pineapple flower.
Girl waiting and waiting for me and wiping her tears,
Alas, I have no wings to fly over and come near you!
Alas, the illusory airplane of sweet dreams
Is incapable of taking a human away!
Alas, the illusory airplane of sweet dreams
Is incapable of taking a human away!
Finally, my niece's birthday is in less than a month, so I guess I might as well post a couple of impossibly cute movie songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEGuVAxASk
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?8092
Didn't you go ahead and make a hut out of vines in order to hide?
Daughter bird, didn't you come here to keep playing and tell stories?
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
I'll sing "cuckoo, cuckoo," too,
And come with you, cuckoo!
Did you hide your insolence and fly away?
I won't be with you.
Come here, rufous treepie!
I'll set up a swing for you.
I'll drink the dripping sap of hanging flowers and come.
My flower friends, jasmine, little tree plant,
How come you play deaf and don't listen
When I tell you stories?
Touch-me-not, do you have any idea how much I love you?
Let me touch and caress your cheek!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGnExPztHRA
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?5483
Sway slowly back and forth;
Sway gently and sleep at an angle!
Go to sleep, little baby eyes;
Sleep gently, little baby heart!
Kingini, sweet child,
The hairs of your young eyelashes brush.
Even if they give me a new one over the hills(?),
Even if the gods come and call us,
We'll raise you without letting go
And lull you to sleep in this golden crib.
As your legs grow, as your little arms grow,
Oh, a mommy is awake, oh, a mommy
Is awake inside with glasses on her tail
To give you gold, to decorate you with pearls,
To give you gold, to decorate you with new pearls!
Not knowing the way, not knowing the meaning of pain,
A star has opened its eyes somewhere on Earth,
Has opened its eyes somewhere on Earth behind an invisible screen.
The night didn't notice, and a flower with good gems didn't notice, either.
Also, since today is Onam (or Thiruvonam to be more precise), here's an Onam song called "Kannanthali Muttam" from Njanonnu Parayatte (1982):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJ9G_kTyJ0
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?6414 followed by http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?6413
For the goddess of the Earth on Thiruvonam in late August,
Common lantanas, large men's earrings,
Little tree plants, earrings,
Thumba flowers, a sweet smile,
Jasmine flowers to decorate hair...
A courtyard of bicolor Persian violets, a thumba in the courtyard,
What gathered the thumbas in the tuft of hair was a precious neem tree,
A precious neem tree.
Costumes danced on a branch of the neem tree.
The costumes sang.
A flute on some lips is gathering ears,
Gathering honeyed ears.
The night of the full moon is shining
With measuring rods for rain(?), peacock feather headdresses, timid women,
Timid women,
And trembling wings of gold.
എഴുതാൻ അറിഞ്ഞുകൂടാ. എനിക്ക് ചിലതുമുണ്ട് പറഞ്ഞുതരാൻ. ഒന്ന് വരൂ, എനിക്ക് കാണാൻ! ശ്വസം മുട്ടി മരിക്കുന്നതിന് മുൻപ്...മാധവേട്ടന്റെ...!
ezhuthaan arrinjnj(uk)uuTaa. enikk(u) chilathuNT(u) parranjnj(u)tharaan. onn(u) varuu, enikk(u) kaaNaan! Svaasam muTTi marikkunnathin(u) munp(u)...MaadhavETTante...!
I don't know how to write (this). I have some things to tell you. Come here so I can see you! Before I suffocate to death...your...!
A star in the sky, a flower below,
A flower below,
Golden moonlight,
Golden moonlight
Is decorating the flower and blossom with a chill.
Did the golden moonlight's cheeks puff up?
Are its eyes puffing up?
As for the flower, the tips of its eyes call out for a long time.
The calls are echoing.
The calls are echoing.
And another song praising Kerala called "Maamalakalkkappurathu" from Ninamaninja Kalpadukal (1963):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfgZle4DNU
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?188
On the other side of the great mountains, there's a
Land called Malayalam, there's a little land
Called Malayalam, wearing emerald-colored silk.
There's a land where forests and gardens
Clap and play in the dreamy moonlight.
In that region where lakes and rivers smile,
Embroidered with paddy fields decorated by the sun,
There's a house like a bird cage, there's
A little house like a bird cage on the lotus shore,
In the shade of sprouting coconut trees.
At the threshold of the house, there's a woman
Lighting a lamp and waiting for my return.
There's a woman with charcoal blue eyes and a
Mole on her cheek the color of a pineapple flower.
Girl waiting and waiting for me and wiping her tears,
Alas, I have no wings to fly over and come near you!
Alas, the illusory airplane of sweet dreams
Is incapable of taking a human away!
Alas, the illusory airplane of sweet dreams
Is incapable of taking a human away!
Finally, my niece's birthday is in less than a month, so I guess I might as well post a couple of impossibly cute movie songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEGuVAxASk
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?8092
Didn't you go ahead and make a hut out of vines in order to hide?
Daughter bird, didn't you come here to keep playing and tell stories?
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
I'll sing "cuckoo, cuckoo," too,
And come with you, cuckoo!
Did you hide your insolence and fly away?
I won't be with you.
Come here, rufous treepie!
I'll set up a swing for you.
I'll drink the dripping sap of hanging flowers and come.
My flower friends, jasmine, little tree plant,
How come you play deaf and don't listen
When I tell you stories?
Touch-me-not, do you have any idea how much I love you?
Let me touch and caress your cheek!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGnExPztHRA
Lyrics: http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?5483
Sway slowly back and forth;
Sway gently and sleep at an angle!
Go to sleep, little baby eyes;
Sleep gently, little baby heart!
Kingini, sweet child,
The hairs of your young eyelashes brush.
Even if they give me a new one over the hills(?),
Even if the gods come and call us,
We'll raise you without letting go
And lull you to sleep in this golden crib.
As your legs grow, as your little arms grow,
Oh, a mommy is awake, oh, a mommy
Is awake inside with glasses on her tail
To give you gold, to decorate you with pearls,
To give you gold, to decorate you with new pearls!
Not knowing the way, not knowing the meaning of pain,
A star has opened its eyes somewhere on Earth,
Has opened its eyes somewhere on Earth behind an invisible screen.
The night didn't notice, and a flower with good gems didn't notice, either.