{"id":693,"date":"2025-07-05T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:24:26","slug":"%e0%b6%af%e0%b6%a9%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%92-%e0%b6%85%e0%b6%b4%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b4%e0%b7%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Dadakiri Appa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The evening shadows gather,<br>Darkness spreads across the land.<br>The branches of the ancient banyan sway,<br>As winds from the <em>kamathas<\/em><br>Whirl around the quiet village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDadakiri Appa,<br>Dadakiri Appa\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lost track of time in idle talk,<br>Not knowing dusk had come.<br>Now my baby cries at home\u2014<br>I run with haste<br>To soothe the little one\u2019s tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDadakiri Appa,<br>Dadakiri Appa\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My heart trembles with the owl\u2019s cry,<br>Fear grows heavy in the night.<br>But my child waits\u2014<br>So I will hurry home,<br>Please do not frighten me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDadakiri Appa,<br>Dadakiri Appa\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From afar I hear your gentle voice,<br>Cradling my child with care.<br>With your blessing, O Lord,<br>I know my child is safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDadakiri Appa,<br>Dadakiri Appa\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening shadows gather,<br>Darkness spreads across the land.<br>The branches of the ancient banyan sway,<br>As winds from the <em>kamathas<\/em><br>Whirl around the quiet village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDadakiri Appa,<br>Dadakiri Appa\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dadakiri appa &quot;\u0daf\u0da9\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd2 \u0d85\u0db4\u0dca\u0db4\u0dcf&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zl3kJ1jAmCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evening shadows gather,Darkness spreads across the land.The branches of the ancient banyan sway,As winds from the kamathasWhirl around the quiet village. \u201cDadakiri Appa,Dadakiri Appa\u2026\u201d I lost track of time in idle talk,Not knowing dusk had come.Now my baby cries at home\u2014I run with hasteTo soothe the little one\u2019s tears. \u201cDadakiri Appa,Dadakiri Appa\u2026\u201d My heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[6,96],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folksongs","category-historysong","tag-dhammika-hettiarachchi","tag-synthverse-harmonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}