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The Mahabharata ("Abracadabra" by the Steve Miller Band)
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3:52Now PlayingHow do you compress 100,000 verses into a 4 minute song? You can't. But we tried to hit some of the main points of the epic Indian work. Featuring clips from the Ravi Chopra TV series (1988).
(original remake of the instrumental)
LYRICS
Ancient tales from India
Handed down through millennia
Millennia of gods and man
Struggles for power against the demonic clan
Demon clan wasn’t very nice
Tricked the Pandava’s in a game of dice
Thirteen years, suffered at their hands
Epic war engulfed the land
Mahabharata
Long verses its gotta lotta
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
Krishna was an ally you see
Incarnation of deity
Taught them life’s philosophy
And of their heavenly destiny
Bhagavad Gita
Created in Vedic meter
Krishna, their seer and teacher
Their warrior leader
The war raged on for 18 days
Pandava’s won but felt malaise
Loss of kin, a heavy price to pay
Sometimes the right’s not the easy way
Years of peace and yogic calm
Krishna died, it was time to move on
One survived to pass the test
And he was welcomed to eternal rest
Mahabharata
Long verses its gotta lotta
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
One hundred thousand verses long
Written in Sanskrit as an epic song
“What’s found here, may be found elsewhere”
“What’s not here, you won’t find anywhere”
Ancient tales handed down
Karma and dharma go round and round
Ancient tales handed down
Karma and dharma go round and round
Ancient tales handed down
Karma and dharma go round and round
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