From Lennie Clark's Web Site:

Ya Mayla Al Gousoune
(You Who Are Leaning on the Tree Branches)

This page contains a translation into English of the lyrics to the song "Ya Mayla Al Gousoune", which was recorded by the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz. Her name is often alternatively spelled as "Feiruz", and another spelling for this song title is "Ya Maila Al Ghousoune".

Lyrics

You who are leaning on the tree branches
My beautiful dark skin
Waving our roses on the water
The fresh breath is blowing and changing our life like magic
The lover has not been given water
The appointments and promises have not come
The Roses of Love need water
You, dark and beautiful, leaning on the tree branches

Where to Get Recordings of this Song

Artist: Fairuz CD Title: Fairuz Amazon Store:

Translations of
Feiruz' 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.