Kurdish Songbook - Suna Alan - Meso - 6 April 2015

Описание: LYRICS

Meso Xidire min [“Dont go, my Khidir”] [in Zazaki dialect, from Dersim province]

This is a lament sung by the mother of Xidir (Khidir). Xidir is a young Kurdish Alevi villager from Dersim province of Turkey, Northern Kurdistan. In 1950 Turkey sent its army to Korean War and 250 young villagers were taken from Dersim as soldiers to fight in Korea. Xidir was one of them and he never returned to his village. When the news of his death arrives, his mother starts to cry and sings a heart-rending lament

TEXT

xaxo verra xidirê min cigera min sona rayê
to dıme ra beeerbena, peeepuga Kora maye [2]

wayê wayê li min li min
xidirê min cigera min
to dıme ra, beeerbena
peeepuga Kora maye

meso meso biko Xido, gosro mın e, li min meso
to xapneno ceno beno, nû hukûmato de tereso [2]

wayê wayê li min li min
xidirê min cigera min
to xapneno ceno beno
nû hukûmato de tereso

Ends

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Set used with kind permission from:

Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre
by Anders Lustgarten

Produced by Arcola Theatre, London

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Mehmet Ergen

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Anthony Lamble

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