Here is a song by Robert Burns in one of his more soulful moods as he describes a love-lost girl as she wanders by the banks of the river Doon in Ayrshire.
Played to Napoleon in exile on St. Helena by his young friend Betsy Balcombe. Napoleon, who hated English music and called the worst in the world, remarked that it was the prettiest English air he’d ever heard. When young Betsy corrected the Emperor that it was Scottish, Napoleon simply said “I thought it was much too pretty to be English.”
@@awemetesh It produced some superb music centuries before 1900. I won't make a list here but you might look up Henry Purcell and John Bull to get started. :)
Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote this poem in the year 1791. Tagore was inspired by this song "Ye Banks and Braes" and its melodic schema was used for his song phule phule dhole dhole (ফুলে ফুলে ঢলে ঢলে)। Its not a translation.
@jagannath Roy hi sis, its not public domain, there never was a copy right on this. But that doesn't mean Tagore came up with it himself or that he "stole" it. Most indians automatically come to the conclusion that the scottish stole the tune when the scottish song is much older, and some others conclude Tagore stole the tune, which is also not true, Tagore had acknowledged he liked the tune so used it inside a Bengali assembly.
In Bangladesh too, so more like in bengal, rabindranath tagore had 3 houses in Bangladesh, he has written the national anthem of Bangladesh, the biggest cultural organisation of rabindra sangeet is also Bangladeshi, he spent his a lot of his time here, and he had written a lot of his iconic masterpieces here. Bangladesh has countless roads, parks, schools, universities, buildings named after him, so ig the correct sentence would be in bengal :)
@@affan3481 Point taken. I stand corrected! Bangladesh has outstanding Rabindrasangeet singers! "Immortalized in India and Bangladesh" would be more correct. Rabindrasangeet is sometimes performed in Hindi in India.
This song is so so sweet and soothing. Can't help but mention a Bengali song based on this, written by Rabindranath Tagore, called "ফুলে ফুলে ঢলে ঢলে", which feels like a hot cup of fine Darjeeling tea in a winter morning.
I first heard these beautiful words and music about 1967 at a Central School in remote Australia. It always stayed with me. When I had my children, and they were upset, I sang it to them and they calmed. That a poem written in 1791 could calm a child ini 1995 says so much about the longevity of prose.
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie doon How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant ye little birds And i sae weary full o' care? Ye'll break my heart ye warbling birds That wanton through the flowery thorn Ye 'mind me o' departed joys Departed never to return Oft hae i roved by bonnie doon To see the rose and woodbine twine And ilka bird sang o' its love And fondly sae did i o' mine Wi' lightsome heart i pulled a rose Full sweet upon its thorny tree And my false lover stole my rose But ah she left the thorn wi' me
I thank the beauty of Scotland and their music and poet to have gifted my land a the people with our version of this legendary classic by being an inspiration for Rabindranath Tagore to write abd compose fule fule dhole dhole..
Great globalist finance controls politics (conservative, labour, SNP, greens are full of great finance puppets) and wants to destroy family (gender theory, LGBT ideology, pornography, ...) because family is the greatest obstacle to the full control of people; muslim immigrants in Europe are also instruments for this satanic project; SNP has nothing Scottish about it (except the name). Read G.K. Chesterton, a great defender of family and freedom. Wake up Scots: protect your families, children and freedom!
@@toodumbtodie3872 with due respect sir/ma'am, credit has been given. That's why so many people know the name of the exact(original) songs from where it was inspired despite it being made in 1700's. Also he wouldn't have been a nobel laureate if he 'stole'.
It's just heavenly! Whenever I listen to this beautiful song, it mesmerized me. It seems as if someone is twisting the heart and bringing out all the pain. It is a great feeling. 👍
This was the origin of country music, I think you can see how country music came about when you listen to this. well real country not the pop crap they make today 😜
@@simikess The rose stands for a womans virginity so the stealing was being deflowered, the thorn is the consequence and pain of being abandoned pregnant.
Aye but ye must remember this is our nation we’re talking aboot we’re known for some messed up shite mate but this Bonnie wee song is nae one of our mistakes🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
@thames -The other song by Rober Burns -"Auld Lang Syne" was taken by Danish poet Jeppe Aakjeer, and many other cpunttries like Japsn, Sputh Korea, Netherland, & Indian poet Tagore . And Naval & Military college of several countries. Tagore admitted that he took the melody. like everyone. Looks like you wanted a jab on Tagore for some reason.
It's quite another matter whether Tagore did steal this tune or not but this is rather shockingly mostly in raga Shudh Kalyan in Indian classical music. It's a raga associated with tranquility and peace. It seems even a Scotsman feels the same about this particular ascent and descent of notes.
It's Sutherland or one of the neighbouring counties. That blue sea and those green rocky hills are unmistakable. Probably my favourite part of the country, it's so barren but so breath-taking at the same time
+Saadi Sabyasachi It's 'Scots' an English dialect that they speak in Scotland and have done for many hundreds of years, hence why a lot of Trad scots songs have english lyric's. Note the use of "Ye" instead of "You" etc.. It's not really engish, it's Scot's, it's theirs now. It is true that many Scot's also speak Gaelic but it's not as common as you might think. There are still plenty of Gaelic songs out there though.
Never realised that the comment section on a rendition of Ye Banks and Braes would turn into an Indian fist fight. Who says social media isn't educational?
He created a remake. Just the way a lot of popular artists do. If you feel a compelling need for originality in music, then why don't you create something instead of calling out a man who has done something worthwhile.