Fairouz - Akher Ayyam el Sayfiyyeh / Kan el Zaman (Cover) آخر ايام الصيفية / كان الزمان

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Translated lyrics in English below. Students Basheer Antar & Mosheer Antar from Jordan play 2 of their favorite songs by Fairouz - The Last Days of Summer (Akher Ayyam el Sayfiyyeh) and Kan el Zaman - performing on the Oud, a Middle-Eastern instrument, on Open Mic Night at Café Paradiso in Fairfield, Iowa on June 20, 2018. 6-20-18. Music & lyrics by Fairuz. Note: the other students in the audience were all behind the camera.

Lyrics :
The last days of summer (Akher Ayam Al Saifiyah)

The last days of summer and the girl is a little bit
reached the avenu of Mayce Al Reem
and the car broke down
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Last day of the errands
There is a blue cloud and pretty cold
and I'm alone, forgotten in a grey arena
me, the night and a song
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We are late, what could we do my love, time passed us
if i could, i would visit you with my eyes
but the car will never work


Kan el Zaman:
These were the days, and there was a small shop in the shade,
and boys and girls would come and play by the water,
and drunken John would be sitting behind the shop,
singing and making the girl next door sad,
“Don’t ever forget me and remember drunken John”,
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A bunch of us and a bunch of birds would roam around the street,
towards the shop we flew carrying batches of flowers,
and drunken John would be busy and on the walls,
drawing the girl next door,
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The beauty in the next door’s house went away in a feasty night,
and the shop was torn down, and a new house was built instead,
and drunken John is still, on the walls of oblivion, drawing the girl next door