Safar Barlik (Exile)

"Douwwara-دوّارة"

Arabic:
دوّارة عالدوّارة، دار الحكي

هجروا الأحبّة الحارة، ليش البكي؟

دوّارة دوّرتيني سهل وجبل

وتحت الندي نسيتيني وبالي انشغل

ما سألتي، ما اذكرتيني وغيرك سأل

وانهدّت اليسمينة وعلقا تكي

دوّارة علّي داير صبح ومسا

وبفيّة الضفاير عمره انتسى
قاسي يا هوى قاسي، ليش القسى؟
صبيّة شعرا طاير وملبّكة
 دوّارة علّي قاصد يقطف حبق
وبإيام الحصايد قلبه احترق
قالتلي شفتك قاعد تكتب ورق
قلتلّا هالقصايد كلّن لكي

English:

Douwwara ad-douwwara

Words have made the round

The beloved have left the neighborhood

Why all the tears?

Douwwara

You got me following you round plain and mount

And forgot me under the dew

And I got worried

You didn't care, you never remembered me, while someone else did

And the jasmine tree got exhausted, and its neck bent

Douwwara

To the one who's wandering round day and night,

And who forgot himself in the braid's shade

O love you have become so cruel, why the cruelty?

A timorous young girl with flowing hair

Douwwara

To the one who intends to pick basil up

And whose heart flared (with love) during the days of harvest

She said I saw you writing papers in stack
I said all these are poems, and are meant for you

Explanation:

This beautiful song comes during the "fake wedding" that the villagers created in order to distract the Ottomans while they smuggle the wheat needed to make their bread. This explains why, for instance, "the words" started making the round now. It is because weddings (and the traditional dances that occur during them) are the perfect places and occasions for gossip.
Now Fairouz is adopting the words of a man describing the hard time he endured when he was in love, and after the separation:" The beloved have left the neighborhood, why all the tears?" The use of the plural to designate the beloved is common in songs written in the Lebanese dialect, but the beloved is the young flustered girl he describes later.
This lady got him following her in the plains and mountains, then just left their neighborhood keeping him waiting until the jasmine tree grew older and its trunk bent.
The last part of this song goes back to when the poet first fell in love (during harvest time, which is when the sun is particularly burning). A possible explanation of the first verse of this part is that by intentionally going to pick up basil (probably near the girl's house, or near the fields that she frequently went to) he was able to catch a glimpse of her.
-Douwwara: (Literally means "going round" or turning around"), the word is employed in accordance with the habit of Lebanese folk songs writers, where the poem is built upon the rime of a word that they repeat and that does not usually mean anything. More famous examples of such words are: هوّراة (Houwwara) and اللومة (El Loma).It seems that "Douwwara" fitted the context of the poem, and I'm guessing that the dance you see in the video (Lebanese folk dance called Dabkeh) was adapted to fit the context as well (dancers formed a circle). It was therefore chosen by the poet.

Song: "Douwwara"
Lyrics & music: Rahbani Brothers
Album: Safarbarlek/Bint El-Harass 
Video reference: Here

In collaboration with Abdulfattah el Cheikh

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"O bird-يا طير"

Arabic:

يا طير، يا طاير على طراف الدني

لو فيك تحكي للحبايب شو بني

يا طير، يا طير

روح اسألن علّي وليفو مش معو

مجروح بجروح الهوى شو بينفعو؟

الموجوع ما بيقول علّي بيوجعو

وتعنّ عبالو ليالي الولدنة

وحياة ريشاتك وايّامي سوى

وحياة زهر الشوك وهبوب الهوا

ان كان انّك (كنّك) لعندن رايح وجنّ الهوى

خدني ولو انّو (ولنّو) شي دقيقة وردّني

English: (Literal)

O bird, flying over the edges of the world

If only you could tell the beloved ones what's with me

O bird, O bird

Go ask them about the one whose lover isn't with him

Wounded, with love's wounds, what can do him any good?

The one who's in pain doesn't tell what pains him

And the nights of childhood recur to his mind.

O (bird) flying, and carrying the color of trees with you

There's nothing left but waiting and boredom

I wait in the sun's eye

On the coldness of stone 

And I am troubled, and the hand of separation destroys me

I beseech you by your feathers and my days, together

I beseech by the thorn flowers and the blowing of wind 

Were you going to them, and were love to erupt

Take me, for even one minute, and bring me back.

English: (Liberal)

O bird, flying over the edges of the world

If only you could tell the beloved ones what's up with me

O bird, Oh bird

Go ask them about the one whose lover isn't with him

Ask them “what can cure someone who's wounded from love?”

The one who's in pain does not tell what's hurting him

And on his mind recur the nights of childhood

Flying, and carrying the color of trees

Nothing remains but waiting and boredom

Under the burning sun

Sitting on a cold rock, I wait

Troubled, and annihilated because of severance

I beseech you, O bird, by your feathers, by my days

By the thorn flowers and the blowing of wind

Were you going to the one I love, and were love to erupt in my heart

You’d Take me to them, and bring me back,

Even if it were for a minute.

Explanation:

In this song, Adla is calling upon the bird to tell her lover (Abdou) how she's been ever since he was taken by the Ottomans for forced labor (Check the explanation of "Allamouni"). She also asks the bird to take her to see him, and this is what we later see happening in the movie: Adla does follow Abdou from one village to the other, in order to see him. "Ya tayr" comes before "Allamouni" in "Safar Barlik". Note that this song has been rearranged by Ziad el Rahbani and merged with the song "Ya hajal Sannine" (O partridge of Sannine) from the play and movie "Bayya' el Khawatim" (Rings for sale).

*This is the Thorn flower:

Song: "Ya tayr" 

Music & Lyrics: Rahbani brothers
Album: Safarbarlek/Bint El-Harass

Video reference:Here

Picture reference:Here

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"They taught me-علّموني"

Arabic:

علّموني، هنّي علّموني

على حبك فتحولي عيوني

و التقينا و انحكى علينا

علموني حبك و لاموني

عايام الورد قلبي دايب

كيف كنا و كان العمر طايب

شو جرى، شو غيّر الحبايب

مرقوا عا بابي و ما حاكوني

يا عصفور الشوك أهلك داروا

بهالسما و ما بعرف وين صاروا

دلوني عدرب الحب و طاروا

و على درب الصبر ما دلّوني

English: (literal)
They taught me,

Themselves, they taught me

To your love, they have opened my eyes

And we met, and we were gossiped about

They taught me your love, then blamed me

Over the days of roses, my heart is melting

How we were, and how delightful life was

What happened? What changed the beloved ones?

They passed by my door, and did not speak to me

O Dunnock, your people have flown

In this sky, and I don't know where they have become

They guided me to the road of love, and flew away

And to the road of patience, they haven't guided me

English: (Liberal)

They taught me (your) love

Themselves, they taught it to me

To your love, they have opened my eyes

And we met, and we were gossiped about

They taught me your love, and then blamed me

My heart longs for the happy days

How we were, and how delightful life was

What happened? What could have possibly changed my lover?

He passed by my door, and did not speak to me

O Dunnock, your kins have flown in the sky

And I don't know where they are now

They showed me the road of love, then flew away

But to the road of patience they never guided me

Explanation:
The song is taken from Fayrouz' 1967(i think) film called "Safar Barlik" or "Exile". "The film is set around 1914 when Lebanon was under the Ottoman Empire rule. The empire enslaved men to work for free. Abdou goes to get Adla the engagement ring but he's arrested with others and are taken to cut lumber." After trying to escape, Abdou is caught and imprisoned. We learn in the scene preceding the song that Adla found out about her fiancé's destiny, and so loses the hope that he'll be released along with his compatriots freed earlier. Adla and Abdou knew each other since their childhood and were in love before he officially asked for her hand from her grandmother. And these are the happy days she's referring to in the song.
*Here's a picture of the Dunnock (عصفور الشوك)

Song: "Aallamouni"
Lyrics & music: Rahbani Brothers
Album: Safarbarlek/Bint El-Harass (The Exile/The Guardian's Daughter)
Video reference:Here
Picture reference:Here
Reference to the text between quotations:Here