Palestinian folk song
Despoina Apostolidou (voice)
Ya zarif / Oh handsome man
Oh tall, handsome man, halt and heed my words:
Why go to foreign lands when your lands are better for you!
I fear, oh handsome man, that you will leave own lands
and forget all about me
Oh tall, handsome man, you who always have a smile on your face
you who were raised coddled by your mother and father
Oh tall, handsome man, the day they alienated you,
my hair turned grey and my back bent
Oh tall, handsome man, where are you travelling away to?
We pray to God that you will come back to us here
Perhaps then you and I can meet up by the water spring,
sing Atabah and greet one another in the morning with Mejana
Oh tall, hadsome man, you’ve become enstranged from your people
Don’t go away and then place the blame on us
Hopefully you will return to the grapevines
and we’ll reap the wheat and collect our harvest