Ramwong Roeng Songkran (รำวงเริงสงกรานต์): meaning and key lines
Suntaraporn Bandวงสุนทราภรณ์
What the song is about
รำวงเริงสงกรานต์ram-wong roeng sǒng-graan, “Ramwong Roeng Songkran (Merry Songkran Ramwong)”, is a Thai festival song by Suntaraporn Band. One of the old big-band songs that fill Thailand every April: a man and a woman call each other out to celebrate Songkran, the Thai New Year, with music and the ramwong circle dance. The three lines quoted here are short and simple: the new year arriving, an invitation to come and play Songkran, and how dancing makes you happy.
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Song facts
- Artist
- Suntaraporn Band (music: Eua Sunthornsanan; lyrics: Srisawat Phichitworakan)
- Style
- Festival song
- Level
- A2 (elementary)
- Mood
- festive, flirtatious, joyful
- Views
- about 460K (Oct 2026)
- Video
- Metro Records (original Suntaraporn master recording)
- Lyrics
- Key lines quoted; the full song is in the video
Key lines, explained
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- ฟ้า fáaใหม่ màiแล้ว láewล่ะ lâนะ náน้อง náwng
It's a new sky now, my dear.
The chorus opens every round with this line. ฟ้าใหม่fáa mài, 'a new sky', is the new year arriving. แล้วláew = now, already: something has changed. ล่ะlâ and นะná together make it warm and chatty, like 'you know'. น้องnáwng (younger sibling) is how a man calls a young woman he is sweet on. - เชิญ choenน้อง náwngมา maaเล่น lênสงกรานต์ sǒng-graan
Come and play Songkran, my dear.
Sung by the man. เชิญchoen + person + verb = to invite someone, politely, to do something: เชิญนั่งchoen nâng = please have a seat. เล่นสงกรานต์lên sǒng-graan, 'to play Songkran', is what Thais call joining in the festival, above all its water-splashing. มาmaa + verb = come and… - รำ ramแล้ว láewเป็นสุข bpen-sùkทุก túkที tii
Every time we dance, it's pure joy.
Sung by the woman to her partner. รำram = to dance a Thai dance; the รำวงram-wong is a slow circle dance for couples. Verb + แล้วláew = once you do it, whenever you… เป็นสุขbpen-sùk = to be happy, a little formal: in everyday Thai, มีความสุขmii kwaam-sùk. ทุกทีtúk tii = every time.
Words you'll learn
- ฟ้า fáa
sky
- ใหม่ mài
new; again, anew
Low tone. After a verb it means 'again': มาใหม่maa mài come again. Three different words: low ใหม่mài new, falling ไม่mâi not, rising ไหมmǎi (question).
- เชิญ choen
please, go ahead (inviting someone in or to sit)
Said with an open hand: come in, have a seat, after you, or please start eating.
- เล่น lên
to play
Falling tone. พูดเล่นpûut lên (talk + play) means 'just kidding'.
- สงกรานต์ sǒng-graan
Songkran, the Thai New Year (13-15 April)
เล่นสงกรานต์lên sǒng-graan (to play Songkran) means joining the water fight.
- รำ ram
to dance (Thai classical or folk dance)
- เป็นสุข bpen-sùk
to be happy, content
Everyday Thai: มีความสุขmii kwaam-sùk.
- ทุก túk
every
It goes before the noun: ทุกวันtúk wan every day, ทุกเช้าtúk cháao every morning, ทุกคนtúk kon everyone.
- น้อง náwng
younger brother or sister; a friendly way to call someone younger
Like พี่pîi, it's also a title for anyone younger than you: young waiters and shop staff are น้องnáwng.
Grammar in this song
Inviting. เชิญchoen + person + verb is a polite invitation: เชิญน้องมาเล่นสงกรานต์choen náwng maa lên sǒng-graan (come and play Songkran, dear). On its own, เชิญค่ะchoen kâ / เชิญครับchoen kráp is what a host says when you come in, sit down or start eating. With friends it's simply มาmaa + verb + กันgan: มาเล่นน้ำกันmaa lên náam gan = let's go and splash water.
Every time. ทุกtúk + a word for a time = every: ทุกทีtúk tii (every time), ทุกวันtúk wan (every day), ทุกปีtúk bpii (every year). And verb + แล้วláew + result = whenever you do it: ฟังแล้วมีความสุขfang láew mii kwaam-sùk = it makes me happy when I listen.
The culture behind it
Songkran (13-15 April) is the traditional Thai New Year. Today it is best known as a nationwide water fight, but its songs remember a gentler festival: merit-making, pouring scented water over the hands of elders, and in the evening the รำวงram-wong, a slow circle dance in which couples dance side by side. This song is all flirting: the man calls the woman out to dance, she admits she feels shy, and by the end she wants to dance with him on and on. Thai PBS names it, with Ramwong Wan Songkran (also on our songs page), among the Suntaraporn songs you hear almost everywhere at Songkran.
The music is by Eua Sunthornsanan (1910-1981), leader of the Suntaraporn band. The words are by Srisawat Phichitworakan (1921-1982), a poet and journalist who, by his own count, wrote about a thousand songs and loved puns and rhymes, which is why the rest of the song is full of old, playful words. Because he died in 1982, the words are under copyright until the end of 2032, so we quote only three lines: listen to the rest in the video.
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