Burns, Ye banks and braes

[3bongs3]

ajrahman10, Hi! Pl let me know when they get uploaded. Thanks Monali

[3bongs3]

Amazing voice! I have been bowled over your song completely!

[ajrahman10]

Hi Elizabeth. Thanks for the lovely rendering of the song. I am recording it along with the Tagore version of it, to be released (in an album with other Scottish & Irish songs and their Tagore versions) in May, for the 150th anniversary of Tagore. I am listening to renderings of different singers to make sure I have the right pronunciations & tempo.

[3bongs3]

@ajrahman10 Hi I am Monali. I am collecting the titles of songs that Tagore has borrowed from Great Britain. I shall be obliged if I could get only the titles of the songs that you have compiled for your CD if not the songs.Thanks

[ajrahman10]

@3bongs3 Hello Monali. Sorry it took me so long to see your message. I have been flat out at the studio. The 5 songs I have recorded which are from the collection of song form GB that Tagore borrowed tunes from, are getting uploaded on youtube:-) Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes is one of them which has been uploaded.

[zmalim1]

Tagore's song has a variation in the melody for the second line. The Bengali can be translated to be sung in English:

1 2 3 1 2 3  12 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 123

Flowers swaying in the breeze, or are they softly sending it by?

Rivers rise up in waves and in a flood go rushing by.

Cuckoos in the flowering branches: coo-hoo coo-hoo coo-hoo sang, still

I know not why I can only sigh, and say alas! alas!

[felidsentry]

This is extremely beautiful. I'd sing this for my senior song at school if our school had any appreciation for the arts...

[Arch5280]

Beautiful! And sung by a beautiful voice! (I wish we could know her name, but I can guess why it is being suppressed...)

It is so unfair that the Scottish have such pretty tunes...

[Bubble1210]

Thanks Arch5280. When I uploaded this song, I wasn't sure if I wanted to put my name on my videos but last year I started to. My name is Elizabeth Dobie Sarsam and I used to be a professional concert-opera singer. Now I'm a hobby musician. Thanks for your kind comment. Cheers, e

[Gimmer3]

This is so good I keep playing it over and over! Today is Burns 250th Birthday! Thanks Bubble!

[Erwinspapa]

This song reminds me of another Burns song that Bubble sung at my 50th Wedding Anniversary. Her tender rendering brought tears to the eyes of a Scottish friend. Bubble, thanks for the momory.