Spring Depiction in Folk Songs of Garhwal and Various Other Countries वसंत आगमन का प्रेम भरा गढवाली गीत

 Spring Depiction in Folk Songs of Garhwal and Various Other Countries

                                                              Bhishma Kukreti

               (Garhwali Folk Songs, Kumauni Folk Songs, Himalayan Folk Songs, Folk Songs of North India)

               Spring season plays a great role in the human life and depiction of spring in folk and other literature becomes a common aspect in all types of literature in all communities across the globe.

  Geoffrey Charlsworth states that spring makes its own statement.  However, famous Garhwali  writer Puran Pant ‘Pathik’  adds into this quote that “Yes ! Spring makes its own statement but poets make the statement forever”.     In Garhwal and Kumaun, when spring arrives there is celebration of spring festival (Vasant Panchami). The villagers dance and sing in the evening for showing the arrival of spring. The following song is a symbolic folk song. The brother in law (elder sister’s husband) or Bheena  is the symbol of lover. The girl opens her love sense in the form of flowers of various plants and tress which are blossomed at the arrival of spring

                                 वसंत आगमन का प्रेम भरा गढवाली गीत 

                                                       इन्टरनेट प्रस्तुति : भीष्म कुकरेती 

                                                      मूल स्रोत्र : डा शिवा नन्द नौटियाल 

                     ग्वीराळ फूल फूली गे म्यारा  भीना  O Bheena! There is blossom on Gweeral

                    माल़ू बेडा फ्यूंळड़ी फूलिगे भीना     O Bheena ! Fyunli is also blossomed  

                 झपन्याळी सकीना फुलिगे भीना  O Bheena !  Sakina are blossomed

                 घरसारी लगड़ी फूली गे भीना O Bheena near Village field, Laya are blossomed

                 द्यूळ थान कुणजु  फूलिगे भीना O Bheena in worshiping places, Kunj are blossomed

                   गैरी गदनी तुसार फूली गे O Bheena! In deep valley, Tusar are blossomed

                  डांड्यू  फूलिगे बुरांस भीना O Bheena! There are flowers beds on the hills and mountains

                 ड़ळ फूलो बसंत बौडिगे भीना O bheena Spring has comeback as all tress are blossomed

                  बसंती रंग मा रंगदे भीना O Bheena! Color me in Vasnati yellow colour

                 ग्वीराळ फूल फूली गे म्यारा  भीना O Bheena! There is blossom on Gweeral

                           

   Spring Depiction in  Sakura Sakura a  Japanese Folk Song

              Springs attract every human being. the following song was created in nineteenth century by University academicians but became popular as if it is a folk songs of Japan and is now a representative song of Japan for international audience.

Sakura Sakura                                               Cherry blossoms Cherry blossoms  

Noyama mo sato mo                                      on meadow hills and mountains

………….                                                               …………..

Izaya izaya                                                            come now come now

Mini yukan                                                             Let’s look at last

The folk or Japanese representative song is also alove song and there are symbols and images of nature which show the sign of love.

                      Spring Moon Light a Traditional Chinese Music

             Spring attracts evry society and China is not exception. The song ‘ Spring Moonlight on the Flowers by river” is very famous and popular music /song of China.

                               Symbolic Hungarian Folks Song about Spring

              Spring is lifeline of human beings for various tasks. That is the reasons human beings created various types of songs for spring. For example, there is a Hungarian folk song as:

The spring wind blows the waters, my flowers

Every bird searches for a partner, my flower

 And , I whom should choose, my flower

I choose you, you choose me, my flower

In this very interesting Hungarian folk song, the spring blower water means due to spring snow melts and my flower means that my love.

The analyst of this Hungarian traditional  song rightly states that spring is renewal, the symbol of birth, life.. and love..all over world.

               Spring Depiction in Swedish  Folk Song

  The spring metabolizes the human beings emotionally and physically and there is geographical transformation too. The unknown people created hundreds of folk songs related to spring as there is a very attractive Swedish folk song “ner det voras I bland….” . Famous music composer Gery Jones translated the original Swedish traditional song as :

When it is Spring time in Rockies, I’ll be coming back to you

To my sweetheart on the mountain, with your bonny ey so blue

Once again I will say “I love you”, where the birds sing all the way

When it is Spring time in Rockies , in the Rockies far away

   Cu Cu Cu Children Folk Songs in Italian, German and Spanish languages

 Cuckoo starts singing in spring season and most of the languages have the folk songs related to cuckoo singing the song as found in Garman, Spanish and Italian  languages. The following is Spanish version of children folk song related to spring:

Cu, Cu, Cu Cu

Se oye cantar

Es el cucililo …

Cu, Cu, Cu Cu

Quirer decir

  When there is children song pertaining to spring , that is the proof that human being is affected emotionally and physically by spring

 The above analysis state that spring brings geographical changes and human beings create poetries around spring as most of the language poems are having depiction of  spring.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti