Nagada Nagada

(Nagada is a sort of sideways drum that’s beaten with thin reeds. Whenever there's something newsworthy, the Nagada is beaten and the news is announced throughout the village.)

Ho oye hye oye
Rang puredi rang rangili
Very colorful
Ladki chail chabili
Saucy girl
Usde chanchal nain kataar
Her eyes are like daggers
Are chanchal nain kataar di usda
Roop bana hathiyar
Her beauty a weapon
Uske roop se qatal hue tho
When her beauty killed me
Charcha shuru hua
The gossip started
Nagada nagada nagada baja
Sound the drums!
Nagada nagada nagada baja
Oooo
Rang puredi rang rangili
Chail Chabili naar
Chanchal nain kataar di
Usda roop tez talwar
Uske roop se qatal huye tho
Charcha shuru hua
heeeyyyyyyyyyyy
Nagada nagada nagada baja
Nagada nagada nagada baja
hhoooyyyeee
Hai hai hai

Jab bhi woh ladki, khidki pe aaye
Whenever the girl stood at her window
Koi usko dekh mare,
Some died looking at her
Koi bin dekhe mar jaye
Some died even without a glimpse of her
Are guzre gali mohalle se
When she passed in the street
To mela sa lag jaata tha
It was like a fair gathering
har ek aashiq eid manata
Every lover celebrated
bhangda gaata tha
And sang
khatam na hota deewanon ke
There was no end to her admirers
Jalse shuru hua
They formed a huge crowd
heeeyyyyyyyyyyy
Nagada nagada nagada baja
Nagada nagada nagada baja

Arre bachpan se uska
Since childhood
Ek deewana tha
She had an admirer
Jiska kaam gali ke aashiq pare hatana tha
Who cleared her admirer off the streets
Dil se jisko maan raha tha apne dil ki rani who
He thought of her as the queen of his heart
Aur kisi pe hi yaaro marti thi marjani who
But she was in love with someone else
Ek kahani khatam to duja kissa shuro hua
One story ended and another started
Nagada nagada nagada baja
Nagada nagada nagada baja
Oooo
Rang puredi rang rangili
Chail Chabila naar
Chanchal nain kataar di
Uska roop tez talwar
Uske roop se qatal huye tho
Charcha shuro hua
Nagada nagada nagada baja
Nagada nagada nagada baja —4
hoooyyyyeee


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