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PHOTO CREDIT: Above photo by John Rickman Photography, San Jose, California. |
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From Lennie Clark's Web Site:
Mawwal Ya Hob
(Ode to Love)
This page contains a translation into English of the lyrics to the song "Mawwal Ya Hob", which was sung by Khalil Abboud.
Lyrics
A mawaal is a vocal acapella section, rather like a vocal "taqsim". Leyla Lanty has included this beautiful mawaal at the end of the wonderful album Golden Days, Enchanting Nights which she produced in Cairo.
Love
Love, I wish God would forbid you to taste joy
So you would know how it has been for me
On the top of the mountains I pray God
Love
Do not think I cannot live without you
Why not?
You are crazy, love
Sometimes joyous, sometimes sad
And there is not much left in life to do
Now I only have one wish
To have never been there
To have never met you
Where to Get Recordings of this Song
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Artist: Khalil Abboud Amazon Store: |
Translations of
Khalil Abboud's Songs on This Site
Acknowledgements
About the Translator
This translation was created by Khaled Hegazzi of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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. |
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