தாலாட்டுப்பாடல் (Lullaby)


Songs Of Motherhood

தாய்மையின் பாடல்

Folk songs are interrelated with human's day today life. Folk songs are categorised according to the human's activities. Such as lullaby songs are created by mothers to get  a baby sleep, love songs are created to express their affection and feelings and some songs are created to sing during the working time and during play a games to chase the tiredness and get a boost to continue their activities without laziness.
Let's we see about lullaby song. Lullaby songs used to sing to get a baby sleep. They are always using upgraded words in lullaby. In tamil it is called as  "தாலாட்டு". "தால்" means tongue. So these songs are singing specially the use of tongue to create a different kind of rythm. It's a depiction of motherhood.

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