Khudni
Lyrics & Music: Rahbani Brothers Take me to its lovely hills / Take me to the land that has reared me / and forget me there among vineyards and fig trees / and let me lie upon the soil of our village. / Ancient windows are signalling to me, and sounds of its / rivers are calling those who have travelled; / And eyes peeping from windows say to me, / We are friends. / And I walk in forgotten alleys, in late evenings, / when lights are about to go off, / waiting for a hand to shake mine and a voice / to salute me. / Take me and plant me in the land of Lebanon / take me to the house that is guarding the hill, / where I shall open the door and kiss the walls / and kneel under the loveliest sky, and pray, and pray.... |
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Mawwal: Fi Lina Ya Hub Mawwal: we have a tent Lyrics & Music: Rahbani Brothers O love, over there on top of the mountain, we have a tent, waiting for us to visit in an amorous night / stars shower its slopes with kisses, as clouds kneel at its rims. O love, we have a tent, a vase and two white roses / and together we shall be at the edge of the sky, you and I / and a bunch of songs. |
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Shadi
Lyrics & Music: Rahbani Brothers Long time ago, when I was a young girl, a boy used to come from the nearby woods / His name was Shadi / Shadi and I used to play in the snow, we sang for each other and ran in the wind / We carved our names in the rocks and the wind bit our faces. One of these days, the world was smothered with fire / some people began fighting against other people / and the fighting spread to our hills / Shadi ran to watch / I got scared, I yelled: Shadi where did you go, Shadi / He disappeared, he could not hear me, the valley took him in / since that day I never saw him again / Shadi was lost for ever / Snow fell and melted away for twenty times / I grew up and Shadi remained the boy I knew, playing in the snow. |
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| From Fairouz; Legend and Legacy |
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