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The Tale of Najafabad — Mohsen Moussawi

The Tale of Najafabad

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The Tale of Najafabad

Mohsen Moussawi

From The Tale of Najafabad

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Tempo
154 BPM

Also reads as 77 or 308 BPM — tempo doubling is normal and both are correct.

Lyrics

My Najafabad, O city out of old time

homeland of a people sweet and good of heart

It was that learned Sheikh who founded you

"Bahai", who drew a plan of such command

The mark of learning and of effort is in your making

God wrote you out in water and in clay, with love

Not only a city of gardens and of green meadows

but a cradle of craft, of pattern and of ornament

This very city is a gemstone full of jewels

may the scent of your culture wind through this age

The minaret, the citadel, and that "Haft Borj-e Kharun"

marks of your splendour, standing in their majesty

Your pigeon-towers hold their heads up high

witnesses to an art that is beyond dispute

The sound of the chisel on the inlaid wood

the tune of warp and weft, and the lesson of honour

At the hour of afternoon, the smell of bread and wheat

"Egerdek", the sweet taste on a smiling mouth

Kebab on the anjiri skewer, and that smoke

whose flavour takes the sorrow out of everything there is

The almond blossoms of the spring

grow restless in your lane of gardens

Though I am far away from that pure soil of yours

my heart takes wing toward the hollow of your ground

You are alive always, in memory and in the soul...

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