From Lennie Clark's Web Site:

Bint El Sultan
(Daughter of the Sultan)

This page contains a translation into English of the lyrics to the popular Egyptian shaabi song "Bint El Sultan", which was sung by Ahmed Adawiyya.

Ahmed Adawiyya is widely recognized as one of the first recording artists to establish the genre of Egyptian music known today as shaabi.

Lyrics

You daughter of the sultan, have mercy on the poor guy
The water is between your hands and Adaweyya is thirsty
You are walking on Abbas Bridge
And people are looking at your sweetness
Like fruits and pineapple
Bye, sweetie, bye
Your land is so far away
But I'm willing to walk to you if you wish
Give me water more and more
Your water is so sweet like sugar
I love Alexandria city and I'm from Cairo
I love east Egypt and south Egypt too

Translations of
Ahmed Adawiyya's Songs on this Site

Acknowledgements

About the Translator

Adel Abdallah is an Egyptian who resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. If you are traveling to that great city, he invites you to stop by the Cafe Picasso, located at 3401 Chartres (on the corner of Chartres and Desire, in the Bywater). The cafe serves delicious Middle Eastern food, and offers shiisha smoking. They are open daily except for Sundays, from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. (Deliveries until 10 P.M.) The phone number is (504) 948-6881.

The translation summary was done by Adel at Lennie Clark's request. Muchisimas gracias to Kruz, (whose Morocco to India ethnic boutique, located in the historic French Quarter, is not-to-be-missed) for suggesting Adel as a translator.

About the Source

This article originally appeared on Lennie Clark's web site, "Arabic Song Translations." Lennie created this web site in 2002 as a response to discussion on the Internet regarding incidents of dancers who performed inappropriate sensual dances to religious music. Lennie's web site resided on a free web hosting service known as Geocities. When the planned October 2009 closure of the Geocities web hosting service was announced, Lennie and Shira agreed to move the contents of Lennie's site to Shira.net. To explore all the articles and song translations that once appeared on Lennie's Geocities site, visit Lennie's portal page here on Shira.net.