Seems we’ve been talking about music in all my belly dance classes lately, and it’s made me take a look at my music collection – turns out I have a lot of Egyptian Pop! Who knew?
One of my favourites has to be Hakim, so much of his music is just plain fun, I can’t help but smile when I hear it.
So for fun I thought I’d provide an English translation for an awesome song of his called Ah Ya Albi…
Enjoy!
Ah Ya Albi – Hakim (from the album Tigi Tigi)
Ah! My heart
Ah! My heart
Ah! My heart
My love, the hurt is getting more and more
I begged her and kissed her hand
My love, the hurt is getting more and more
I begged her and kissed her hand
She left me and betrayed me,
Why didn’t she stay by my side?
Ah! My heart
Ah! My heart
Ah! My heart
I lit her candles (meaning he was being romantic)
She enjoys while i’m crying
That’s my nature and I got used to it (not sure if he means he’s gotten used to the fact that he’s a hopeless romantic, or that he’s used to her not being nice to him)
What hurts me the most is that she didn’t feel what I felt
And after all these years
It was easy for her to leave me