Monday, March 17, 2025

Someone came close by / Koi paas aaya sawEre sawEre | Jagjith Singh / Saeed Rahi

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Lyricist:  Saeed Raahi
Composer / Singer: Jagajit Singh
Album: Come Alive LP  (1979)

Raag: Lalit / Lalat / LalaaT
Taal :  ೫ 5-Syll. Jazz beats / Sulfak Taal
/ 5x2=10 Syllables Morphed-Jhaap Taa
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(See:  A 'wild' improvisation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ariXkdS7heY
Or with Pt Zhakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasiya :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxF8qAFUrTQ )

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Original Lyrics
(plus a Kannada Translation) : 
'ಬಳಿಬಂದರಾರೋ ಬೆಳ್ಳಂಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ" 
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someone came close by
wee in the morning
they enthralled me by
wee in the morning

twisting my own tale by just a wee bit, they
played it back to me by wee in the morning

till the last dusk that I kept telling: control! hold on!!
just there I lost at it,  fumbling, weeping, mourning

that my whole night was spent in the tavern
to my thoughts, god occurred by, wee, in the morning

candlewick that kept us lit all through the last night
indeed it kindled away by the wee tearing morning



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