"Dia umpama merak kayangan, rupanya cantik warna kilauan...... segak dan gayanya membikin hati tertawan.., Beta umpama gagak di rimba, tak sepadan tak sebaya........., ingin masuk ke syurga, bertemu jelita, menyampaikan hasrat rindu kepadanya......"
Merak Kayangan written and sang by Tan Sri P Ramlee. Once in a blue moon while driving, I would hear the song, it always puzzle me, why did this great man use the word "Beta", a word use by the Raja Raja Melayu to address themselves, at the same time in this song this Beta, liken himself as a wild crow in the jungle.
Merak Kayangan written and sang by Tan Sri P Ramlee. Once in a blue moon while driving, I would hear the song, it always puzzle me, why did this great man use the word "Beta", a word use by the Raja Raja Melayu to address themselves, at the same time in this song this Beta, liken himself as a wild crow in the jungle.
Merak is a phoenix. Merak with the stunning beautiful feathers are male and not female. Kayangan in translation is Heaven, to be specific, it is commonly use in reference to the Hinduism type of heaven. The Malay version of Mahabrata and Ramayana use the word kayangan at every chapter.
In Merak Kayangan, the singer express his wishes or desires to enter "syurga", which also meaning heaven, to meet this beautiful phoenix just to tell him or her of how much he misses him or her.
In the UK, this song could have pass as a gay song. Do you agree?
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