Arabic Music Allah Allah Ya Baba
Alfonzo Liebenstein
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;)
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..
"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.
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:)
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.
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
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?
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Sidi mansour ya baba, wa ndjik en zour ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Sidi mansour ya baba, wa ndjik en zour ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Sidi mansour ya baba, wa ndjik en zour ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Sidi mansour ya baba, wa ndjik en zour ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Alah allah ya baba wa slam alik ya baba
Sidi mansour ya baba, wa ndjik en zour ya baba
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