Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa sings He Gobinde, He Gopale

I love music, I love music of many different traditions.

I also love Gurbani, the ‘hymns’, the ‘Shabad-Guru’, the ‘Word that teaches’.

Tomorrow I will find the text and translation for this shabad for you.

Gurfateh/God Bless !

Harjinder Singh

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Malaar, Fifth Mehla:

O World-Preserver, World-Sustainer, Merciful Beloved. ||1||Pause||

You are the Master of the life-breath, the Companion of the masterless,
the Destroyer of the pains of the poor. ||1||

O All-Powerful, Unfathomable, Perfect One, shower me with mercy. ||2||

Take Nanak across the great terrible blind well ||3||8||30|| 

 

 

Paul Brady sings Arthur McBride

Listen to the song and listen to the story of Arthur McBride who did not want to join the British Army. 

Paul Brady sings (tells the story) and playes the guitar.

 

I had a first cousin called Arthur McBride
He and I took a stroll down by the seaside;
Seeking good fortune and what might betide
It was just as the day was a’dawnin’

After restin’ we both took a tramp
We met Sergeant Harper and Corporal Cramp
Besides the wee drummer who beat up the camp
With his row-dee-dow-dow in the morning

He says my young fellows if you will enlist
A guinea you quickly will have in your fist
Besides a crown for to kick up the dust
And drink the King’s health in the morning

For a soldier he leads a very fine life
He always is blessed with a charming young wife
And he pays all his debts without sorrow or strife
And always lives happy and charming

And a soldier he always is decent and clean
In the finest of garments he’s constantly seen
While other poor fellows go dirty and mean
And sup on thin gruel in the morning

Says Arthur, I wouldn’t be proud of your clothes
You’ve only the lend of them as I suppose
And you dare not change them one night or you know
If you do you’ll be flogged in the morning

And although we are single and free
We take great delight in our own company
And we have no desire strange countries to see
Although your offer is charming

And we have no desire to take your advance
All hazards and danger we barter on chance
and you’d have no scruples to send us to France
Where we would be shot without warning

And now says the sergeant, if I hear but one word
I’ll instantly now will out with my sword
And into your bodies as strength will afford
So now my gay devils take warning

But Arthur and I we took the odds
We gave them no chance to launch out their swords
Whacking shillelaghs came over their heads
And paid them right smart in the morning

As for the wee drummer, we rifled his pow
And made a football of his row-do-dow-dow
Into the ocean to rock and to roll
And bade it a tedious returnin’

As for the old rapier that hung by his side
We flung it as far as we could in the tide
To the Devil I pitch you, says Arthur McBride
To temper your steel in the morning