my husband's favorite song

[palilover 1]

Since I'm having a youtube craze right now I found this song for my husband at his request. He always lovs it even when he was here. he heard it on my computer and him being the funny gy he is.....I went to take a shower one time and had this song on my playlist along with other songs. But I came out and ths song was on repeat. I said "What did you do to my computer?" He said nothing, it did it by itself. He had the little kid "Uh oh my hand is caught in the cookie jar but I must try to have an innocent look on my face" kinda look. My husband, who does not know anything about computers, taught himself how to delete every song except for this song from my playlist so HIS song could go on repeat;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCewmGsR55k

[palilover 1]

someone was kind enough to post some of the lyrics on youtube. So for those of us who are arabic challenged, here ya go;)

allah allah ya baba

oh god oh god ,my father

we salam 3alek ya baba

greetings be upon you

allah allah ya baba

oh god oh god ,my father

we salam 3alek ya baba

greetings be upon you

sidi mansour ya baba

sidi mansour oh father

wenjek enzour ya baba 2x

i'll come to visit you my father

[Nothing1234 2]

Since I'm having a youtube craze right now I found this song for my husband at his request. He always lovs it even when he was here. he heard it on my computer and him being the funny gy he is.....I went to take a shower one time and had this song on my playlist along with other songs. But I came out and ths song was on repeat. I said "What did you do to my computer?" He said nothing, it did it by itself. He had the little kid "Uh oh my hand is caught in the cookie jar but I must try to have an innocent look on my face" kinda look. My husband, who does not know anything about computers, taught himself how to delete every song except for this song from my playlist so HIS song could go on repeat;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCewmGsR55k

Aww I LOVE, I LOVE!! It reminds me of so many good times out at one of my favorite places here by my home!! A friend of ours from Jordan owns it and this is his "theme" song toward the end of the night!!! LOL

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

someone was kind enough to post some of the lyrics on youtube. So for those of us who are arabic challenged, here ya go;)

allah allah ya baba

oh god oh god ,my father

we salam 3alek ya baba

greetings be upon you

allah allah ya baba

oh god oh god ,my father

we salam 3alek ya baba

greetings be upon you

sidi mansour ya baba

sidi mansour oh father

wenjek enzour ya baba 2x

i'll come to visit you my father

This is actually considered one of the national songs of Tunisia. Sidi is like the word for a saint. In north africa they have songs like sidi mansour... in oran sidi houari. When I bought a camel in Tunisia ( like a toy camel) you squeeze its stomach and it starts singing allah allah ya baba sidi mansour ya baba...The song is clearly known as SIDI MANSOUR. The version you have been listening to is by a non tunisian....Mansour is a common sephardic jewish surname and the expression baba is father, a term used by north african jews to venerate their saints. In Oran they sing SIDI HOUARI, Khaled also sings the song Sidi Boumediene and Sidi Houari as well as Sidi Mansour. I think your palestinian husband will get a kick out of the jewish origins of this song..

A brief excerpt from the sephardic geneology website

"Mizrahi is a common Sephardic name found from Morocco to Greece, to Turkey, to Syria, Iran and every place on the road to and from the old Silk Caravan Route. The same is true of old Judeo-Arabic names like Douek, Tawil, Gindi, Gemal, Mansour and Blanco. Many Sephardic Jews changed their 15th-century Spanish names to their equivalent in Judeo-Arabic, Italian, even Maltese; others kept the Spanish version.

The problem with finding the origins of Sephardic names is that many Sephardim took their names from varying sources at different times. For some, a name was shortened. Some Spanish crypto-Jews took common Spanish and Portuguese Christian names from gravestones."

Some non jews now bear the name Mansour but it is sephardic jewish in origin and in Djerba Tunisia, there are streets sidi mansour in the jewish quarter and the theatre in tunis where star academy is held is called sidi mansour theatre

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

someone was kind enough to post some of the lyrics on youtube. So for those of us who are arabic challenged, here ya go;)

allah allah ya baba

oh god oh god ,my father

we salam 3alek ya baba

greetings be upon you

allah allah ya baba

oh god oh god ,my father

we salam 3alek ya baba

greetings be upon you

sidi mansour ya baba

sidi mansour oh father

wenjek enzour ya baba 2x

i'll come to visit you my father

This is actually considered one of the national songs of Tunisia. Sidi is like the word for a saint. In north africa they have songs like sidi mansour... in oran sidi houari. When I bought a camel in Tunisia ( like a toy camel) you squeeze its stomach and it starts singing allah allah ya baba sidi mansour ya baba...The song is clearly known as SIDI MANSOUR. The version you have been listening to is by a non tunisian....Mansour is a common sephardic jewish surname and the expression baba is father, a term used by north african jews to venerate their saints. In Oran they sing SIDI HOUARI, Khaled also sings the song Sidi Boumediene and Sidi Houari as well as Sidi Mansour. I think your palestinian husband will get a kick out of the jewish origins of this song..

A brief excerpt from the sephardic geneology website

"Mizrahi is a common Sephardic name found from Morocco to Greece, to Turkey, to Syria, Iran and every place on the road to and from the old Silk Caravan Route. The same is true of old Judeo-Arabic names like Douek, Tawil, Gindi, Gemal, Mansour and Blanco. Many Sephardic Jews changed their 15th-century Spanish names to their equivalent in Judeo-Arabic, Italian, even Maltese; others kept the Spanish version.

The problem with finding the origins of Sephardic names is that many Sephardim took their names from varying sources at different times. For some, a name was shortened. Some Spanish crypto-Jews took common Spanish and Portuguese Christian names from gravestones."

Some non jews now bear the name Mansour but it is sephardic jewish in origin and in Djerba Tunisia, there are streets sidi mansour in the jewish quarter and the theatre in tunis where star academy is held is called sidi mansour theatre

From the 9th century onwards, Jewish and Muslim musicians worked together in Andalusia and in Cordoba. The Jewish musician Mansour accompanied the master musician Ziryab on his flight from Baghdad. At the court of Abdurrahman II he created a vast corpus of music, known as Andalusian music, which has been played at weddings and family celebrations through the ages.

[palilover 1]

Interesting. I don't know about Tunisia but baba is my husband's arabic means father. I don't know if it is the formal word for father or if it is more like our English word daddy or papa. It is cute to hear the little kids say it though:) My husbaand's daughter even got happy when she heard this song on my mp3 player when I was in Palestine:)

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

Interesting. I don't know about Tunisia but baba is my husband's arabic means father. I don't know if it is the formal word for father or if it is more like our English word daddy or papa. It is cute to hear the little kids say it though:) My husbaand's daughter even got happy when she heard this song on my mp3 player when I was in Palestine:)

Yes... For example also in Jewish Morocco...they have sidi shrines..

Sidi Boumediene in Tlemcen that I visited is considered a sufi saint. The important thing to remember is that the jewish arab thing has not always been this politcised. In Tlemcen, the musicians for the muslim weddings were Jews.

There is a baptismal font in the synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia called Sidi Mansour. Its really considered one of the national songs of Tunisia...

[MelindaandTarek 0]

Great song...it is one of my favorites:)

[SaadBell 0]

Ok help me, is he talking about his father, or God, nice tune. I am always interested in learing more of this.

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

Ok help me, is he talking about his father, or God, nice tune. I am always interested in learing more of this.

hes talking to sidi mansour...baba mansour...like a venerated saint both in judaism and sufi islam.

They say baba also when you go to one of the graves in north africa like BOUYA OMAR in Morocco or SIDI BOUMEDIENE or SIDI HOUARI in Oran....sufism and judaic thought have alot of parallells in North Africa. Sidi's are considered living saints in sufi islam.. Like you go to them and talk out your problems

Some videos

Najim sings in Sidi Houari about the saint Sidi Houari in the section of Oran called Sidi Houari

[palilover 1]

Ok help me, is he talking about his father, or God, nice tune. I am always interested in learing more of this.

Judging by the translation, I thought his father. But I don't know the history of tunisia so...

[sereia 0]

yes very famous song indeed. i used to have this exact version on mp3 but its gone anyone wanna send me the file?

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

Ok help me, is he talking about his father, or God, nice tune. I am always interested in learing more of this.

Judging by the translation, I thought his father. But I don't know the history of tunisia so...

ya baba could be your dad or speaking to the saint.

Algerian or Tunisian arabic talking to god would be RABI RABI

[sereia 0]

in morocco they do something similar too. ya rabi. or something to that effect.

[palilover 1]

yes I think since rabi is a traditional word in Islam (like said in Koran, etc) everyone who speaks arabic regardless of dialect would say it the same. Well, ok maybe with their own accent perhaps but the word is same:)

That always amazed me how Muslims act. They always know when to speak arabic and when to speak english. Like they are all speaking english and they throw an arabic word here and there. They always say it in arabic though, I don't know why if that is the only word they know in arabic. They always say Alhumdoolillah for example, and never just simply praise god. they don't actually try to learn the language, they just say Islamic words that are catch phrases from the mosque. Am I the odd one here or am I the only revert who actually wants to learn how to speak arabic aside from a few Muslim catch phrases?