Pukhto Love Song

This song is sung by Shamso Rehman. He is from the Abbottabad/Manshera region. He has recently settled in Bhalot with his sister's husband's family.

Pukhto:

tao sha ra tao sha ta vega

dAmé fal dé khousa lo dé

shrung shrung shrung

shrung da di g'hungro dé

Punjabi:

nA'cho gao na'cho gao

yé mé pil kushion ga'hei

shrung shrung shrung

shrung iska g'hungro heh

English:

(the name of a dance=nA'cho gao)

nA'cho gao nA'cho gao

this will make [pil] very happy

chained, chained, chained

chained, this is his cow's string of bells

Note. This makes absolutely no sense to me at the moment. I do not pretend that any of these translations are accurate but a bad translation is more fun that nothing. Hopefully through the year the process of getting an accurate translation from a language I don't know at all to a language I have a basic proficiency in to a language I know very well will get better.

One comment on the word 'g'hungro'-- in my Vanguard Punjabi dictionary I found this word as 'g'hungral'. This may be an example (admittedly trivial) of one of the differences between central Punjabi and the Punjabi spoken in the Pot'howar area.