Unknown Bird (Sample)
Music by Bashu Dev Das Baul
Words by Lalun Fakir
Recorded & Translation by Joseph Immel

khanchar bhitar achin pakhi     kemne ashe jai tare dhorte parle mono beri     ditam pakhir pay Inside the nest, Unknown bird,     How you come and go… If I could hold it, my mind a bracelet     would attach to the bird’s foot. aath kuthuri noy dorjay ata     majhe majhe jholka kata tar upore shodor ?kotha     ayna mohol tai 8 gates and 9 doors (of the body) shut     Sometimes the fire is cut. Over it the main hallway.     The mirror chamber. kopaler pher noyle ki ar     pakhiti amon babohar khacha chhere pakhi amar     kono bone palay Troubled luck maybe what else?     The bird uses us like this My bird has ripped the nest     Flown away into some forest mon tui roili khanchar ashe     khancha je tor kacha bashe kon din khacha porbe khashe     phakir lalun kede koy Mind you are fixed on the nest’s coming     Nest of unripe bamboo. What day nest will fall and vanish     Where will Phakir Lalun criy?