Burrow with cool interior

Aingurunooru 27 Sung by Poet Orampogiyar
It is  a song from Marutham thinai set as the words spoken by the heroine's friend to the heroine.

Your man will return home with his earnings, don't you worry my friend!



"sennel am seruvil kadhir kondu kalvan
thann aga mann alaich sellum oorarku
el valai negizha saa-ai 
allal uzhappadhu evankol annai"

For original Tamil poem and explanation in Tamil click here.

Poem Meaning: In the beautiful red paddy fields, the crab will take a ear of paddy and go to its cool burrow under the soil. For a man from such a town, why do you worry such that the bangles loosen and fall off, my mother?

Words Meaning: sennel - red paddy, seruvil - in the field, kadhir - ear of paddy, kondu - take, kalvan - crab, thann - cool, aga - inside, mann alai - soil burrow, sellum - will go, oorarku - for a man from that town, el valai - shining bangles, negizha - loosen, saa-ai - fall off, allal - sorrow, uzhappadhu - worrying, evankol - why, annai - mother

Description: The hero has gone to earn wealth. The heroine awaiting his return yearns for his arrival such that she becomes weak and her bangles get loosened up and come of her hands. At that juncture the heroine's friend consoles her friend, the heroine by saying that the hero will return with his earnings sooner. She uses the crab's action as a simile to express this. The crab in the red paddy fields takes an ear of paddy and goes to its cooler soil burrow. Likewise the hero too will return home with his earnings.Thus the friend says the heroine that there is no reason to be worried. It was common to address the friend as mother out of close affection.

My English Version:
"In  the beautiful paddy fields, taking an ear
The crab goes to its burrow with cool interior
For a man from such a town, why do you worry
Such that shining bangles loosen, my mother?"