The Drinker

By: Bijay Kant Dubey

The Drinker (Darru Mat Piyo, Daru Pina Buri Baat Hain)/ It is Bad To Drink, Leave You Drinking, Think About Your Family, What has Wine Given To You?/ Life Is Not A Bottle of Liquor, A Few Puffs of Marijuana, Life Is Not Drug Abuse And Alcoholism


Drinker, daru mat piyo,
Daru pina buri baat hain,
Nasha kaa huya jo shikar
Ujada uska ghar samsar!

Drinker, drink you not wine,
To take wine is bad,
One who turned into a victim of addiction
Destroyed his family!


Daru mat piyo, bhaiyya,
Do not drink, brother,
Daru pina buri baat hain,
To take wine is bad!

 People take wine
And get ruined,
Spoiled,
Destroyed taking

Daru, Indian daru,
Liquor, foreign liquor,
Wine, English wine,
Alcohol, whatever call you

My friend,
Big boss,
Brother,
Wine is wine, am I clear?

Nasha kaa huya jo shikar
Ujada uska ghar samsar,
One who turned into a victim of addiction
Destroyed his family!

Daru mat piyo, daru mat piyo,
Daru pina, pina buri baat hain,
Do not drink wine, do not drink wine,
It is bad to drink, drink wine.

Wine,
Alcohol,
Liquor,
Take you not, take you not!

Daru,
Alcohol,
Wine,
Liquor, abstain, abstain you from!

It is wine, wine which will ruin, ruin you,
It is alcohol, alcohol,
It is liquor, liquor which will, will
Finish, finish you.

Wine, wine
Abstain, abstain you from,
From wine, alcohol, liquor,
Daru, daru!

Toddy, palm juice,
Rice-brewed handia,
Earthen bowl-kept stale wine,
Mahua-made.

Wine, wine,
Wine will snatch happiness,
Happiness of your family,
Family.

Wine, wine
Will, will destroy,
Destroy your family,
Family.

Wine, wine will take,
Take your sleep away,
Away from your eyes,
Sleep, sleep.


II

Taking wine,
Wine,
See, see you,
What you have, you have!

Taking, taking
Wine,
Wine,
Drinker, O Drinker!

Drunkard, Drunkard,
O Drunkard,
The world calls,
Calls you a drunkard, a drunkard!

Having taken, having taken
Wine, wine,
What,
What have you made, made of you!

Having taken, having taken
Wine,
Wine,
What, what have you, have you!

After taking wine, wine
Lie you, lie you fallen,
Fallen on the roads, roads!

After, after taking you,
Taking you wine,
Wine, Drunkard,
Drunkard!

Do the shops, shops,
Liquor shops,
Shops attend,
Attend to?

Drunkard,
Drunkard, for wine,
For wine,
You have it all!

Drunkard, Drunkard,
For wine,
For wine
You have, have your life!

Drunkard,
Drunkard,
Your wife is weeping,
Your daughter is, your whole family!

How sad, sad and pitiable,
Pitiable and pathetic
Is your condition,
Condition!

How sad, how sad,
It is,
It is to see you,
See you, Drunkard!

III

Can’t you,
Can’t you leave wine,
Wine
Which spoils it?

Can’t you
Wine, wine,
Ganja, ganja,
Bhang, bhang?

Can’t you,
Can’t you
Heroin,
Brown sugar?

Drunkard,
Drunkard,
Can’t you,
Can’t you friendship?

With bootleggers,
Drug peddlers,
Ganjeris, bhangeris, darpiyas?

Can’t you,
Can’t you,
Drunkard,
Drunkard?

Your connection with,
Association,
Association with them,
Them, Drunkard?

Leaving ganja,
Bhang,
Daru,
Can’t you, can’t you?

IV
Life, life not,
Not a bottle,
A bottle of wine,
Wine!

Life, life not,
Not a bottle,
Bottle of wine
Deshi or videshi, native or foreign! 

Life, life is to live,
Live,
Drunkard,
Life, life is but to live!

Life, life is not to,
Not to destroy,
Destroy as thus,
As thus, Drunkard!

Life, this life not,
Not a bottle of
Beer, rum, whisky,
Vodka, champagne!

Life, life is
But to live,
But to live,
Mr.Drunkard, did you understand!

Life, life not a pouch,
A pouch of ganja,
Not, not a pill of bhang,
Bhang!

V
Mr.Drunkard,
Think you,
What life has,
What has it?

What has it given,
Given,
What,
What has it taken from?

What, what can
Ganja, bhang
And daru,
Drunkard?

What can,
What can it daru, alcohol,
What, what can it bhang, hemlock,
What, what can it ganja, marijuana?

Wine will end you,
End you
And your life,
Not only you, you, but your whole family!

Think,
Think you, where are you,
Where are you going
To, Drunkard?

Drunkard, when die you,
Die you,
None will be,
None will be by you!

VI
Drunkard,
Drunkard,
How helpless are you,
How much hopeless!

I weep, weep to see you,
See you,
I weep, weep to see,
See you!

Your eyes red, red with addiction,
Your eyes red, red with weeping,
Weeping
Which the wide world has not, has not!

Come to, come to feel it,
Feel it,
How much helpless you are,
How, how much helpless am I!

You wept, wept,
I wept, wept,
Your and mine,
Mine and your weeping

The world did not,
Did not, Drunkard,
Drunkard,
Your and mine, mine and your weeping!

You wept and wept,
I wept and wept,
The world did not,
Did not,

You wept and wept,
I wept and wept,
The world did not,
Did not

Feel it,
Feel it,
I for you, I for you,
You for me, you for me!

Teardrops fell down from the eyes,
Teardrops
From the eyes,
My Love!

And I could not,
Could not hold myself,
Myself
In check!

As such was my weeping,
As such was my weeping
That, that broke I down,
Broke I down for you, my Love!

VII
Drunkard, what can I,
What can you,
Where you, there I,
Where I, there you?

We are powerless,
Powerless,
Drunkard,
Drunkard!

The State has its own rules,
Rules and regulations,
Laws and norms,
The State has, the State has!

If the State a welfare state,
Why does it,
Does it issue
Licenses?

If the State is,
The State is
A welfare-oriented,
Oriented state?

Why does it,
Does it
Issue,
Issue licenses?

Drunkard,
Drunkard,
There must be,
Must be someone to hold in check!

The medical practitioners
Must be there sometimes
To counsel,
The bar-owners should about public health!

This life is not for to die,
Die
If if one crosses the limit,
Should be, should be checked!

One should be checked,
Checked from
Over drinking,
Drinking beyond limit!

If one is drunken,
One should be held,
Put to safety
As to make one drink is not all!

As the Govt. collects duties,
Custom taxes,
It must,
Must take a note of over drinkers!

As they cannot be left to die,
Cannot be left to die,
Die like the ragged men,
As they too are men, are men!

How to redress their grievances,
How to, how to
Their cause and anxiety,
Depression and sorrow?

This the work,
The work of the nation,
The state, the state
To look after, look after!