Audio Overview
There are two types of folk songs in Gyelrong region: one is large-scale and the other is small-scale. This song is large-scale, which is called "rga" in the Gyelrong dialect. In the Gyelrong region, people usually sing this song during the New Year festival or other important events. The rhythm of this song starts slow and gradually becomes faster. The lyrics of the song are as follows: "You shall chant Mani and circle the stupa as much as you can when you are aged, and be kind and compassionate when your hair turns to grey. You shall do works happily no matter how hard they are when you are young." This song is usually sung by one male and one female; the man sings the first part and the lady the latter part.
- ཀརྨ་མཐུན་སྟོབས།གིམ་གྲོ་མགོ་སེ་མ་ཎི་ས་པ་འདེ་ངོས།
- འོ་མ་ཎི་ས་པ་འདེ་ངོས།
- ཨ་ཅེ་ཞིང་ཐོག་སྐྱེ་རྒྱལ་ས་པ་འདེ་ངོས།
- འོ་སྐྱེ་རྒྱལ་ས་པ་འདེ་ངོས།
- ཀའེ་པུ་སྤང་ཐང་མེ་ཏོག་ས་རྒྱས་འདེ་ངོས།
- འོ་མེ་ཏོག་ས་རྒྱས་འདེ་ངོས།