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.”
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.
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.
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. 👍
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..
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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.”
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.
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.
Im very lucky i see this beautiful scenery everyday, and walk amongst it daily.
People were so strong then to handle love issues so poetically
Indian legendary personality R.N. TAGORE adopted the tune and Indianized into sweet popular bengali song.
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.
Reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, she says her father played this song on his fiddle.
Beautiful Scottish accent is always haunting hello from southern ireland,
WHO IS THE SINGER? She sings it so beautiful!
Immortalized in India as "Phule Phule Dhole Dhole" by Rabindranath Tagore.
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie doon
Just heavenly, superb, it has a strong but very sweet super power to mesmerize
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. 👍
We just got done playing this song in our end of winter concert in band.
I’ve lived in Australia and Canada - both beautiful in their own right but I’m fortunate to call this lovely land home. Alba gù brath.
Sooo touching, wonderful,this tenderness in this song👏👏👏
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..
wow! great Scottish song
Breathtaking ❣️