Naanu Batheen

COUNTRY: India
LANGUAGE: Kannada

[NOTE: In the printed lyric notes included with All Around This World: South and Central Asia I mistakenly indicated the song’s original language as being Konkani. Sorry!]

From Les Chants des Enfants du monde Vol. 2: South India, Childrens songs from Southern India collected by French-Canadian ethnomusicologist Francis Corpataux. From Corpataux’s liner notes: “This song is sung by a boy who says that he wants to go to the Fair of Kyathaling (a deity) with his friends and domestic animals.”

Lyrics of the All Around this World version:

Naanu batheen jaathrege
We’re going to the fair ’cause the animals are there
We’re going to the fair ’cause the animals are there

Naanu batheen jaathrege