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Our Village

It doesn't rain, cane doesn't grow
Water buffaloes crawl of hunger as do I
Grey-eyed looks want grass and barley
They say that if you don't give, we'll run away to city
What's there in the city, hey, sheep?

The forests have been ransacked,
my stove doesn't have wood,
The hamlets have been destroyed,
my hamlet doesn't have its hamlet.
My great grandfather's grave is in this place.
It has flowers around it, what's there in the city?
Out village has its cow, what's there in the city?
There is a nice cow here, what's there in the city?

I'm riding a donkey, I don't care about a Jeep.
If I don't have a shirvan, I don't care about my pocket.
My room is made of chaff, I don't care about a house.
I won't leave my hamlet and go to the city.
Hey, what's there in the city?

If my donkey dies because of lack of clover
and from sorrow,
If my cow runs away from the stable of hunger.
If there's only a goat, a sheep and myself left.
I won't leave my village and go to the city.
Hey, what's there in the city?
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From the CD: "Leyla va Dayirman"
Produced by VVS, 2000
Store - Music: CD of Leyla va Dayirman group


Translated into English by Gulnar Aydamirova
Put in the Web by Farida Sadikhova

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