| poet | Sukumar Ray, Bengali writer of nonsense verse |
| original | Ganer Guntho, in Abol Tabol (1923) |
| translator | Sukanta Chaudhuri |
| singer | Bhishma Lochan Sharma |
| season | summer |
| reach of his voice | from Delhi to Burma |
| effects | people dazed, trampled, sick; carts overturn; horses stunned; animals whine and stare with feet in the air; birds turn turtle; fish dive; trees crash; mansions fall; the sky weeps |
| rescuer | a sagacious billy goat |
| ending | the goat charges; the song is scattered; silence returns |
| type | humorous, mock-heroic nonsense verse |