Simon Issa - Yimma

How you raised me in your bosom
Your loving coddling my mother
The sweetest sleep I slept in your arms
Put me to sleep again with your songs my mother

Oh dread my mother, if you part from me
My song will forever be of grief
I will be lost in this fleeting time

Oh dread my mother, if you part from me
My song will forever be of grief
I will be lost in this fleeting time

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The grieving sun on the way ________ will be extinguished
The brilliance of the stars in the sky will cease
Those wild flowers of the fields will not bloom
Song of rivers will cease from the valleys
Those wild flowers of the fields will not bloom
Song of rivers will ceise from the valleys

Oh dread my mother, if you part from me
My song will forever be of grief
I will be lost in this fleeting time

Oh dread my mother, if you part from me
My song will forever be of grief
I will be lost in this fleeting time

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Black of grief, life will pass
Laughter will cease from all my lips
I will curse all things in my heart
With honor the waves of the seas will calm
I will curse all things in my heart
With honor the waves of the seas will calm

Oh dread my mother, if you part from me
My song will forever be of grief
I will be lost in this fleeting time

Oh dread my mother, if you part from me
My song will forever be of grief
I will be lost in this fleeting time