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{{short description|Bengali patriotic song}}
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| writer = Pitambar Das
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"'''Ekbar biday de Ma ghure ashi'''" ({{langx|bn|একবার বিদায় দে মা ঘুরে আসি}}, "Bid me farewell once Mother, I will be back soon") is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] patriotic song written by Pitambar Das.<ref name="Biplobi Khudiram Basu">{{cite web|title=Biplobi Khudiram Basu|url=http://www.kalerkantho.com/index.php?view=details&type=gold&data=Car&pub_no=924&cat_id=1&menu_id=37&news_type_id=1&index=4&archiev=yes&arch_date=25-06-2012|accessdate=26 June 2012|archive-date=10 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610200027/http://www.kalerkantho.com/index.php?view=details&type=gold&data=Car&pub_no=924&cat_id=1&menu_id=37&news_type_id=1&index=4&archiev=yes&arch_date=25-06-2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> This song was composed in honour of [[Khudiram Bose]].<ref name="Mazumdar2007">{{cite book|author=Aurobindo Mazumdar|title=Vande Mataram And Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YBhMfAgxIkC&pg=PA34|accessdate=26 June 2012|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-8324-159-5|pages=34–35}}</ref><ref name="Dept1987">{{cite book|author=West Bengal (India). Information & Cultural Affairs Dept|title=India's struggle for freedom: an album|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwIvAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=26 June 2012|year=1987|publisher=Dept. of Information & Cultural Affairs, Govt. of West Bengal|page=71}}</ref><ref name="Dasgupta1993">{{cite book|author=Probal Dasgupta|title=The otherness of English: India's auntie tongue syndrome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZtiAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=26 June 2012|year=1993|publisher=Newbury Park|isbn=978-0-8039-9456-0|pages=59–60}}</ref>
This song is still very popular in [[West Bengal]].

==Background==
[[Khudiram Bose]] was the first Bengali rebel hanged by the British Government during the Indian National Movement. Khudiram took part in armed revolution against the [[British Raj]], was sentenced to death, and hanged on 11 August 1908.<ref name="Bose2011">{{cite book |author=Sarmila Bose |author-link=Sarmila Bose |year=2011 |title=Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=132 |isbn=978-0-231-70164-8}}</ref> At that time he was only 18 years old. The song was written on the occasion of Khudiram's death. It was celebrated as a farewell song by Khudiram.<ref name="ref6">{{cite book|author=Sunil Gangopadhyaya|title=East-West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oz4bVP20Z2oC&pg=PA350|accessdate=26 June 2012|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1895-6|pages=350–}}</ref>

==Theme==
The song was written when young [[Khudiram Bose|Khudiram]] was hanged to death. In the song, Khudiram is asking his mother to bid him goodbye since he is going to die. The song goes on – "Let me wear the noose round my neck with pleasure. I'll come back in due time. Let the world be witness."<ref name="ref6" />

==Lyrics==
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একবার বিদায় দে মা ঘুরে আসি। 
হাসি হাসি পরব ফাঁসি দেখবে ভারতবাসী।

কলের বোমা তৈরি করে 
দাঁড়িয়ে ছিলেম রাস্তার ধারে মাগো, 
বড়লাটকে মারতে গিয়ে 
মারলাম আরেক ইংলন্ডবাসী।

হাতে যদি থাকতো ছোরা 
তোর ক্ষুদি কি পড়তো ধরা মাগো 
রক্ত-মাংসে এক করিতাম 
দেখতো জগতবাসী

শনিবার বেলা দশটার পরে 
জজকোর্টেতে লোক না ধরে মাগো 
হল অভিরামের দ্বীপ চালান মা 
ক্ষুদিরামের ফাঁসি

বারো লক্ষ তেত্রিশ কোটি 
রইলো মা তোর বেটা বেটি মাগো 
তাদের নিয়ে ঘর করিস মা 
ওদের করিস দাসী

দশ মাস দশদিন পরে 
জন্ম নেব মাসির ঘরে মাগো 
তখন যদি না চিনতে পারিস 
দেখবি গলায় ফাঁসি।
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Ekbaar biday de ma ghure ashi 
Hasi hasi porbo phnashi dekhbe bharatbasi

Koler boma toiri kore 
Dnariye chhilam rastar dhare Ma go 
Borolatke marte giye 
Marlam aarek Englandbashi

Haate jodi thakto chhora 
Tor Khudi ki porto dhora 
Rokte-mangshe ek koritam 
Dekhto jagatbashi

Shonibaar bela doshtar pore 
Judgecourtete lok na dhore Ma go 
Holo Abhiram-er dwip chalan Ma 
Khudiram-er phnashi

Baro lokkho tetris koti 
Roilo Ma tor beta beti 
tader niye ghor koris Ma 
Oder koris dasi

Dosh mash dosh din pore 
Jonmo nebo mashir ghore Ma go 
Tokhon jodi na chinte paris 
Dekhbi golay phnashi
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Bid me farewell once mother, I will be back soon. 
Whole of India will watch me while I wear the noose smiling

With me I had a bomb I'd made 
Waiting by the roadside O Mother 
Trying to kill the Governor, 
Killed some other Englishmen

Had I had a dagger on me 
You think they could have caught me? 
Would have made a blood bath 
And the world would have watched that

On Saturday morning after 10AM 
The Judge Court Road will be packed with people O Mother 
[[Ullaskar Dutta|Abhiram]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Litu |first=Shekh Muhammad Sayed Ullah |year=2012 |article=Datta, Ullaskar |article-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Datta,_Ullaskar |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |encyclopedia=[[Banglapedia]]: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> was deported to an island, 
Khudiram will hang by the neck

12 lakhs and 33 crores 
Is the number of sons and daughters you will still have left O Mother 
Build your family around them 
Make them your servants

10 months and 10 days from now 
I shall be born to my maternal aunt O Mother 
If you don't recognize me 
Look for the mark of strangulation (from the noose) around my neck.
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Indian patriotic songs]]
[[Category:Bengali folklore]]
[[Category:Culture of Bengal]]
[[Category:Songs in Bengali]]
[[Category:Year of song missing]]
[[Category:Lata Mangeshkar songs]]

Ekbar Biday De Ma Ghure Ashi - Revision history

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