Lyrics for a few kannada traditional songs

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prathibha.ramaswamy
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Lyrics for a few kannada traditional songs

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I'm looking for the lyrics of a few Kannada songs, if someone could help me out.

1.Jo Jo balakrishna
2.Ododi bandane gopiya kandane
3.Gopiya bhagyavidu-Purandara Dasa
4.Malagelo Gopala ninnaya

Lakshman
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gOpiya bhAgyavidu. rAgA: behAg. Adi tALA.

P: gOpiya bhAgyavidu shrIpati tA shishu rUpinalliruvudu
C1: kaDu muddu rangana toDeya mElettuta jaDEya heNedu hU muDisi
bEga biDade muttina cendaraLeleyanu saDagarindalankarisidaLu
2: nitya nirmalanige nIranaredu tandetti toDEyoLiTTu moleyUDi
muttu koTTu balu vidhadindADisi artiyindali tA tUgidaLu
3: drSTi tAgIdendiTTu vibhUtiya taTTeyoLAratigaLa beLagi
daTTane uppu bEvu nivAsiLi toTTIlALiTTu tA tUgidaLu
4: emmayya rannane summanirO doDDa gummanu baruvanu aLa bEDa
summane iru ninagammi koDuvenendu bommana pitana tA tUgidaLu
5: mAdhava jO madhusUdana jO jO yAdava rAya shrIrangane jO
Adi mUruti namma purandara viTTalana Adaradinda tA tUgidaLu

Sreeni Rajarao
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prathibha.ramaswamy wrote:I'm looking for the lyrics of a few Kannada songs, if someone could help me out.

1.Jo Jo balakrishna
2.Ododi bandane gopiya kandane
3.Gopiya bhagyavidu-Purandara Dasa
4.Malagelo Gopala ninnaya
Is item 1 jO jO SrI krShNa by any chance? I am not familiar with jo jo balakrishna.
If it is jO jO SrI krShNa, I can type up the lyrics in a day or so.

Sreeni Rajarao

rshankar
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Sreeni - can you please clarify?

In many of the haridAsa's compositions, they use the term 'gOpi' to specifically mean yaSOdA, and not the generic, cowgirls (as in 'bArE gOpi bAlakanaLuttAnE' or 'ninna kAlu kambakkE kaTTi pELuvE gOpigE' for example), and I think in these too, gOpi refers to yaSOdA 'The gOpi'! Is that right?

Lakshman
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There is a song jO jO bAlakrSNa by Shripadaraya I think.

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Ravi,
Interesting observation there! I had never thought about it. I need to look into this but my first thought is that I agree with your line of thought. I am reminded of another song 'mella mellane bandane, gOpamma kELe, nillade ODi hOdane, ..................'

hariniraghavan
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I too checkd all my haridasa sahity books. As Sreeni sir said there is JoJo Srikrishna paramananda of Purandaradasa. That of Sripadaraya is Jo Jo Jo Jo Jo Rangadhama.
Harini.

prathibha.ramaswamy
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It goes like "Jo jo balakrishna jogula hadutta tooguve ne".

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pratibhaji,I think I have heard this song in some old kannada mythological film,decades back.I can recollect a couple of lines too but they are disjointed."VAJRA MUTTINA THOTTILA KATTI JAAJI MALLIGE SARAPALIYA KATTI NAGASAMPIGE HOOGALA CHELLI NAALKU VEDAGALEMBA JOGULAVA PAADI" It was set in a light classical tune.

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There are a couple of words needing alteration.in Gopiya bhagyavidu.text. "cendaraleleyanu' is to be read as "chendanu" "sadagarinda" is to be read as"sadagaradinda""taglidendittu" is to be read as"tagileetendittu" "dattane" is to be read as "thattane" "nivasili" is to be read as"nivaalisi" "emmayya" is, "emmaya"

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Gopi is Yashoda whereas gopika refers to other ladies in Brindavan.In "mella mellane bandane" Yashoda is referred as"gopamma"I.The next line is "mellamellane bandu gallake muddu kottu nillade odi hoda kallage buddi hele." Yashoda replies in the last charana."Toogire Ragayyana baaleyare, dooranne tandiramma"Many devaranamas are there to confirm that gopi is Yashoda.

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Thanks!

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A small correction .'Raagayyana" should be read as"Rangayyana"It was a typing mistake.

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pratibha - if you can mention the composer it will be helpful to find the lyrics of Jo Jo Balakrishna.
Harini.

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With due apologies to Sri Lakshman sir,the word "Cendaraleleyanu" is correct.It is cenda araleleyanu Sorry for the incorrect correction.

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Harini, i have no idea of the composer
aaaabbbbthat is the same song i'm referring to

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P: jO jO bAlakRuShNa
jOguLava pADutta tUguvenA

C1: navaratna kaTTida toTTila kaTTi
maruga mallige jAji hUgaLa celli..
nAlku vEdagaLeMbo sarapaLiya kaTTi..
paMca varNagaLeMbo jyOtigaLa beLagi..
jO jO jO jO
yAdavanaMdana jO jO

2: eccarada nidreyu IgEke bAla
muMdihudu hagareLeya jIvita kAla..
mussaMje AyteMdu madhura saMdEsha..
iruLAytu namma kaMda malago mukuMda..
jO jO jO jO yAdavanaMdana jO jO

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Lakshman Sir, Thank you very much for the lyric of "Jo Jo balakrishna",I was also searching for them.
I could only remember some disjointed lines.Thank you once again.

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