orrey soona kar ke gharwa jab se
aaaa re gayila baharwa ye pardesi baalam
bheja luna ek gahu khabarwa ye pardesi balam
bheja luna ek gahu khabarwa ye pardesi balam

soona kar ke gharwa
oo ho oho
soona kar ke gharwa jab se
gayia baharwa ye pardesi baalam
soona kar ke gharwa jab se
gayia baharwa ye pardesi baalam
bheja luna ek gahu khabarwa ye pardesi

Empty the home, a hollow shell, since you
departed, stranger, to lands afar.
You sent a salty wheat-grain of a message,
oh, stranger, lost beneath a distant star.

Empty the home, a silence deep,
O, oh, oho…
Empty the home, since you did leave,
departed, stranger, past the weeping trees.
Empty the home, since you have gone,
departed, stranger, where the wild wind frees.
You sent a salty wheat-grain of a message,
oh, stranger...