Songs of the Wild Birds: Santal Folk Songs


1.
On a deep branch of the peepul
sings a red-breasted bulbul bird.
When it leaves for a distant land
a tormenting silence surges back...

2.
The dawn breaks,
cocks are calling
and cuckoos cooing.
Wake up, wake up now, my little daughter.
As leaves are born to wither
human life must face death...

trans-created from Santali originals by Rudra Kinshuk