Can anyone help me with this unusual Egyptian song I heard on ART several years ago? Here is the link on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/SOiu8lhK_bE

It's the first of the two songs I'm requesting. I would love to get the Arabic lyrics, and hopefully the English translation.

Also, if anyone knows, what is this song? Who is the singer? Any background or info would be great.

I have wondered about this song for ages, so hope someone can help!!! Please!!!!



Thank you!!!

Well, it is really an old song that many Egyptian singers sang, it is written by the Poet Bayram El Tunsii. The famous singers who sang this song like El Shikh Imam and Said Mekawy It is folklore song.

Its story is about someone who visited London and Paris and starting to compare the social situation between people there and Egyptian people. It is so funny song and it was a challenge to translate but I really enjoyed doing it!

حاتجن ياريت ياخوانا مارحتش لندن ولا باريز
I am going crazy, oh my brothers, I wish I didn’t go to London or Paris!

دي بلاد تمدين و نضافة و ذوق و لطافة و حاجة تغيظ
Those are cities of civilization, cleanliness, sense, and kindness. what a teasing thing!

مالاقيتش جدع متعافي و حافي و ماشي يقشر خص
I didn’t find there a strong man walking barefoot while eating Lettuce

ولا شحط مشمرخ افندي معاه عود خلفه و نازل مص
Nor a grown up man holding a sugarcane rod keep sucking it (LOL)

ولا لب اسمر و سوداني و حمص و انزل يا تقزقيز
And no seeds or peanuts or Chickpea to eat

حاتجن ياريت ياخوانا مرحتش لندن ولا باريز
I am going crazy, oh my brothers, I wish I didn’t go to London or Paris!


ولا واحد طالع يجري و واحد تاني بيجري وراه
And none is running and another person is running after him

و يقول ها هع حصلتك يابن اللي ابصر ايه عاملاه
And saying while laughing loudly, I caught you, son of this and that!

لا الشارع غيط ياخوانا ولا احنا بدارة ولا احنا معيز
And no streets like farms and we are not chickens or goats

هتجن يا ريت ياخوانا مرحتش لندن ولا باريز

I am going crazy, oh my brothers, I wish I didn’t go to London or Paris!

ولا عركة ف نص الليل دايرة بالحيل و ساحبها بوليس
And no fight at midnight running by the police

قدامها جدع متجرجر وشه معور قال دا عريس
In front of it, an injured man with a wound on his face who is called a groom

الخلق ماهي بتتجوز واشمعنى احنا مفيش تمييز
People get married everywhere but we don’t differentiate (For us is very different)

حاتجن ياريت ياخوانا مرحتش لندن ولا باريز
I am going crazy, oh my brothers, I wish I didn’t go to London or Paris!


ولا واحد بيبيع حاجة يقول بريال و تاخدها بصاغ
And none is selling something saying it is cheap but you buy it expensively

ياخوانا دي حتى الابرة تاخدها بدوشة و قلب دماغ
Even my brothers, the needle you buy with headache and a lot of effort

حلفان و عراك و مناهدة و يمكن ضرب كفوف يا حفيظ
Swearing, arguing and fighting and maybe hitting, oh God!

هاتجن ياريت ياخوانا مرحتش لندن ولا باريز
I am going crazy, oh my brothers, I wish I didn’t go to London or Paris!

ولا واحدة ف وش الفجر تبرطع مالية الدنيا صواط
And no woman in at the dawn, her screams fill the world

قال ايه جوز خالتي ام احمد سلفة اخوها السيد مات
Because her aunt’s husband who is married to the sister of the wife of her brother just died

سبحانك ما اعظم شانك والله الموت ده مفيد و لذيذ
Oh God, how great you are. Death is sweet and useful

حاتجن يا ريت ياخوانا مرحتش لندن ولا باريز
I am going crazy, oh my brothers, I wish I didn’t go to London or Paris!

Angel Hero!!! Thank you so, so much for living up to your name!!!!

Do you know recognize the singer? Is she Egyptian? I love her exuberance and enthusiasm, even more because I somehow had the idea that she was not a native Arabic-speaker. Of course I could be completely mistaken, but I'd love to know the story.

Meanwhile, thank you again for the lyrics!!!!

Thank thou SongCat I am really fain that I was able to help. Even it sadden me to say that I have failed to identify this singer but as I hear her accent she is Egyptian and deep inside my heart I feel that I have heard her voice before. I am going to keep it in my mind and I beseechthee for time to doth that

Great work, Angel hero! Congratulations!

Originally Posted by liviapj

Great work, Angel hero! Congratulations!

Thank you Liviapj, Highly appreciated!