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LOGGER'S SHEET

LOGGER: Narmatha Arichandran
REEL NUMBER: #5    STAGE: Mela Performance
DATE: 6/29/85   PRESENTOR: Nazir Jhirazbhuoy, Amy Catlin 
GROUP NAME: Gidha Dancers
REGION/STYLE: Punjab

PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
7 dancers Shyam Lal - Dhol
Mrs. Promod Nanda - Singer
Kirin Chauhan - Singer
Mrs. Swaran Vasu - dholki

CONTENTS Bolis - Short Songs or proverbs about young women in joint families.
1. Beginning   Song - all dance
2. "See me lilt with bells on my feet."
3. "HOW can anyone resist me and my beauty?"
4. "Buy me a pitcher and see how my hips sway as I balance the pitcher."
5. "Girls can peek through veils and fall in love."
6. "I see the jhogi (snake charmer) outside."
7. " my veil flies in a rich man's house"
8. "my husband is only as tall as my pigtail"
9. "my in-laws are strange and my husbands face is so dark and ugly."
10. "I can open one side of my veil and show off my beauty"
11. "Why get dressed up for such an ugly & stupid husband?"
12. "You're husband is Sturdy, but put him in his place and he won't push you around."
13. "mother-in-law, go live somewhere else."
14) "I'll blind my father-in-laws eyes so I don't have to wear my chunni (veil) anymore."
15) "Oh, my terrible mother-in-law, let me go to the Mela with my husband."
16) ?                         P.T.O.