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It was beautiful

The bridges

The river

There were fish

Now there's nothing

It was so beautiful

During the war it was so scary

Our house trembled and shook

The war was overhead

I was afraid in the night

We found some people saying "Baghdad has fallen!"

"The Americans have taken it"

The Americans pass by

The tanks pass by

The helicopters pass overhead

The world is so scary

The world is so scary now

It's all for the oil no more, no less

Why don't they take the oil and leave us alone?

We don't care about the oil

We've never benefited from it

Saddam took everything for thirty-five years

and now the Americans will be even worse

I read in the newspaper today

that the Americans deny taking Iraqi oil

Why are they guarding Basra and Kirkuk?

Because they have the oil resources

This humanitarian aid they talk of, where is it?

Did you get any? Did you get some?

Or you?

Why didn't they burn the Oil Ministry?

They settled in

The situation is getting worse every day

Every day it gets darker

Today is better than tomorrow

There is no security

No security, no police And you see the streets now

Bush wants us to receive him with flowers

How can he expect that?

If it's like this in the beginning, what will it be in the end?

When you first come, you see Abdul Khader Gaelani Mosque

Go right, there's nothing on either side

No, you go straight The streets are here and here

Go into the street, take a right, like that

- you see a cafe - we live opposite the cafe

You'll find me there

knock on the door, ask for Mohammed, and I'll come out

My boss told me "I am like your father"

He raised me up from a child

he and my grandmother

He loves me, loves me

He's nice to me

He doesn't swear at me or beat me

You don't clean the shop You're always playing marbles

Are we working here, or playing marbles?

Why are you doing this?

You pimp!

I told you many times not to play marbles

I tell you to sort the tools - the socket wrench is missing

where are the things?

Open your mind, open it!

Open your mind, you scum!

Look at me! Look at me!

You tell me you cleaned the shop this morning?

You're lying to me? Eh?

I'm talking to you!

Look at me!

Aren't I talking to you Get up!

Look at me!

He loves me

He loves me, he's nice to me

He loves me like his son

He considers me as one of his sons

He doesn't hate me

And he won't fire me

One must form a new outlook on the world

In these times we must forget divisions and denominations!

This will not serve us or Islam This will not serve Muslims

Enough of this "He said this and they said that"

History must move us forward, Not hold us back!

If History becomes a barrier, we will suffer

We must use it as a lesson

and reap the benefits

Our history has been written for thousands of years

He who tells history must tell it for all,

not only for himself

I never liked this thing from the start

Nobody got hurt except for us, the poor

Only the working class got hurt

If there will be work and reconstruction,

we won't be the ones who benefit

Only the rich will benefit

The others will stay the same:

The workers will stay workers

Everyone has their own opinion

Look at the differences between the Sunni and Shia:

You can see the divisions now

If you're applying for a job they'll tell you:

"Go to the Dawa Party,"

"and get their blessings"

Where has the Dawa Party been for the last 35 years?

Where have they been?

Why didn't they rid us of Saddam back then?

They've come back and now it's on a silver platter for them?

If you're a Shia they'll give you their blessings

If you're Sunni they won't

I tell you, I wish that Saddam were still around

I wish he were still here to see everything that's happening

So what if he oppressed us and was hard on us

He would never leave us in this situation

He would never allow it!

He told me he'd pay me later

He's lying, he's a beggar

I used to dream about work:

What is work? How do people work?

How's it done? I knew nothing back then

I used to dream about it I worked and dreamed

Now I kept working and stopped dreaming

I started working to support my mother and grandmother

I dropped out and went to work

I'll keep on working until I'm grown

My boss said, "You must go back to school"

"School will teach you to read and write"

He said, "I'll force you to go"

"If you don't go back, I'll beat you"

This year is not like the others

First, there will be no cheating!

Don't try to bribe the teachers or the headmaster to pass

There will be none of that!

Now they've got us in rows

And they're speaking about school

I want you to be the vanguard

We want you to do us proud,

to be the pride of the New Iraq!

Because we have finished with oppression and tyranny

Under Saddam they made us sing a lot, and we became tired

a new president will come

We must sing a different song, if another president comes

We must sing differently

When you succeed you take a step forward

This step will help push out the Imperialism controlling Iraq

With your efforts and progress

through your studies and cooperation

The first time around I failed the first grade

And then I failed again the next year

I'm four years older than them

But I don't care, the important thing is to read and write

Who is God?

Where is God?

Yes, in the sky!

How must we say our prayer,

that we must know by heart?

The chapter, the Opening Chapter

Say it: The Opening Chapter

This is something every Muslim

must know by heart

And you can know it, too

if God is willing

In the name of God, The Merciful, The Compassionate

All praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds

The Merciful, Compassionate Master of the Day of Judgment

You alone do we worship, You alone do we turn to

Guide us to the Righteous Way

The way of those on whom you have endowed Your Grace

not the way of those who earn your wrath, or go astray

I have an idea about those who pray:

The Drunks and the Sinners

If you treat them well, they return more than they receive

But one who prays and calls himself a God-fearing man

In matters of work or money he will always screw you

What did they tell you in school today?

They didn't give me anything

Did they give you homework?

I did it all in school I don't do it at home

How is the Reading book now? Is it still the simple stuff?

Yes, it's still the same They're bringing new books

The books we have are torn

Do you know how to write your name now?

slow down, Boss!

Can you write your name, "Mohammed"?

Like this, like this, and like this

Good! You can write "Mohammed"

And your father's name? "Haithem"

That's the only thing I still don't know

I can write it, it's easy

"Haithem" HAI-THEM You haven't written it before?

You brother of a whore!

Four years! And you still can't write your father's name?

When will you learn your father's name?

What is it with you? It's the fifth year

I never expect to see my father again

My father is dead to me

I will never see my father, or anything

My father was a lieutenant

He was a policeman

Then he started talking about Saddam

They put him in prison

They showed him on TV

I saw what they were doing in his mouth

They were searching his mouth

They were searching his teeth and beard

and his hair

And they showed how he was before

How he was holding a sword

In the past

That shooting we heard this morning?

When we were sitting here Do you know what it was?

A brother and sister!

The Americans called to them: "Stop, where are you going?"

They were afraid and started running

They killed them both

They were just buried The shots were for the funeral

A brother and sister!

The other day they passed by with cars, not tanks

They were driving very slowly in their car

They were chewing gum

They drove forward One of them was in back

He was watching the kids in case they pulled a pistol

That's how he watched them

They may stay for a long time How would I know?

It's for the oil

It's for the oil, isn't it?

They're going to install a new president

It's not safe here

It's scary there's no security

I want to go abroad

When you are abroad, nothing will happen to you

But here you can't go out It's not safe

My teacher told me I could be a pilot

'What would you like to be? An Engineer, a Pilot?'

'A Doctor?' I told her 'A Pilot'

I want to fly the plane,

to see a place that's beautiful and nice

Not Iraq, but a beautiful place

I imagine ë. I imagine.ë

I'm high in the sky I can see the doves, the sky

I can see the birds

I am in the plane and seeing countries

Beautiful and nice

I fly down to those countries

I'll go to that country

The beautiful one

D-A-R spells what? "dar"

D-U-R spells what? "dur"

What does it spell? "dur"

What's the meaning of "dur?"

Many houses!

"dur" - What do we say? "Dur"

How do we we write "Dur?" D-U-R

And one house? We write D-A-R

DAR

DUR

DAR

DUR

When we say "dar" it means: "one house"

One house Who lives in one house?

People

You, Mohammed, Who lives in your house?

My uncles, me, my mother and my grandmother

All of you live in what? A "dar" - one house

Where do you live? In a house

And the house next door?

Our neighbors

Mohammed's house, plus his neighbors'..

How many does that make? Daran! Two houses!

How many?

No, I'm telling you, is it clear?

Don't come to work starting Tuesday morning

What's the point in letting you work here an hour a day?

I'll find another kid to take your place

I'll find some little kid and let him work

Ah? What do you say?

Which is better? School or work?

Work

Why? Doesn't the school teach you?

No, it doesn't teach me

It doesn't teach you?

What will you learn today?

To work

You're going to learn to work today?

Do you know how to write your name?

Write your name here

Okay And your father's?

Is there anyone who can't write their father's name?

I only know my first name

How many months has your father's name taken?

Show me how to write it here

The first letter in the name, what do you call it?

Eh? You don't know it?

So why are you in school?

Why are you going to school and don't know the letter 'M'?

Are you pleased with yourself?

Stand up and go away

Haven't you been in school for two months?

You spent five years just to write your name, "Mohammed"

When will you learn "Haithem?"

Next year?

He's been in school four years and he only knows his name!

Aren't I talking to you? Why will you say I fired you?

Because you can't write your father's name

Come here! I'm talking to you!

Come here! Why are you crying?

Did I hit you?

Did I beat you? Come here!

Did I hit you?

Can you write your father's name?

Why not? I'm talking to you! Look at me!

What's this? A handkerchief?

Better to clean your face with your sandals!

You dog!

Today when you go - look here! -

Bring a pencil tomorrow to write your father's name

If you don't know how to write it I'll roast you alive!

Understand? You write your father's name tomorrow

Go, you pimp! You mule!

What's his father's name? "Haithem!"

He can't read or write! After five years in school!

You dog, son of a bitch!

Five years in the first grade! Why are you going to school?

Why do they spend the money for you to go?

He's goes to school, drops out, goes to school and drops out

And he doesn't know anything

It's better for him not to go

It's better not to go, I tell you! Better not to go!

Go tell your grandmother that you're dropping out!

11 years old and you can't write?

In the morning

I went with my uncle

When he left in the morning he said, "Come with me"

I went with him to the big shop

I started working with them

It's much better for me

At my old work, they beat me and swore at me

I don't like anyone to beat me

In my uncle's shop, nobody beats me

Nobody swears at me, and I feel relaxed

I will never go back

I have forgotten him, even my boss' name

I left him, once and for all

If anyone tells me to return, I will say:

"I would rather kill myself than go back"

Beware our people!

We will rise up like a great earthquake!

The people were forced into silence,

and only in death could they break their chains!

The crescent moon of our celebration nears

The celebration for which we have shed our tears

Be gone, Oppression and torture of Saddam!

We are the generation of Sadr

Grant us victory over the blasphemers!

We are the generation of Sadr!

Ali, grant us victory!

As one of those children born in the 70s

I always heard about Saddam's oppression

of the Shia

Saddam knows

- as do oppressors like him -

and it's clear to all,

that the Shia are the most revolutionary of all Muslims

I loved religion and I was very religious

I entered the Hawza,

I became a disciple, a student of the Hawza

I saw Mohammed Al Sadr almost every day

He created in me a kind of courage

And this courage grew ever stronger

until I resolved to challenge the regime myself,

to challenge the Baathists

They ordered my arrest

They threw me in a cell for an entire year

Nobody passed by, nobody asked after me

There's no fight between Shia and Sunni, especially in Iraq

The only differences were created by Saddam

and Saddam's regime

He made the disagreement between Shia and Sunna

After the Islamic Revolution in Iran

Saddam sounded the alarm

that the Iraqi Shia might make another revolution

like the revolution in Iran

He began to punish the Shia

for their Islamic customs and traditions

He forbade flagellation

They take up black colors and weeping as a symbol

And flagellation, this is also a symbol

of great tragedy they tasted losing Imam Ali Bin Abi-Talib

They came to teach us of Western Democracy

Killing, displacement, and torture,

arrests without charge

- in the land of Iraq -

This is the Democracy they have brought!

But Islam is the true Democracy,

the opposite of the false, empty Democracy

they are boasting of

We are not terrorists - never! -

as enemies of God and The Prophet try to depict us

They would suck away our wealth,

and control our minds

After all that they accuse us of being terrorists!

Where is the money they are squandering?

Where are the food supplies? They blame security problems!

But by God! You see all these trucks,

coming from everywhere

all carrying supplies for the Americans,

carrying supplies for the security forces,

the instruments of repression!

They are not carrying food supplies

What a shame that some still believe

the occupying power has Iraqi interests at heart!

What kind of fool could believe such a thing?

Either we will hold legal elections to liberate Iraq,

or we remain in the strangle- hold of the Americans

Maybe it will bring conflict, but we are prepared for that

Maybe the occupation forces will oppose us in the streets

We will lead civil disobedience and sit down before the tanks

To prove we are in charge, that we can take our freedom

The important thing is to dissolve the imposed council

and replace it with an elected one

We won't abide those imposed by the Occupation Forces

Let them not imagine that in Iraq

though we faced 35 years of Baathist oppression

that we don't know the meaning of democracy

We know what democracy is

If elections succeed in Naseriyah,

they'll throw out the Americans with a slap on the face

It will be like this: "The Islamic movements propose holding

direct general elections by secret ballot,

to elect a council to represent all the people of our province"

Everyone should feel they have a voice on the committee

- Yes, yes -

So we're saying four Islamic and three Democracy ë.

- That's seven -

And three... We aren't including a Sunni position?

No, that will create factionalism

It's factional? Okay, skip it

This is the reality, I want to explain...

These elections won't bring clear victory to any one group

This is the reality

The Religious Scholars are the last word on the elections

and we will follow the Religious Scholars

Holding local elections proves national elections are possible

And if God is willing, it will be a signal

for the occupiers and the UN that elections will succeed

We will support elections

Elections that are democratic, popular and Shia

And it's your right to vote for whomever you like

We are moving on this path

and we will hold a conference of political parties in Naseriyah

First, we must organize ourselves

If we can do that with dignity, then our path will be true

The Advisory Council, employed by the CPA,

was appointed, not elected

So we fought against it using non-violent resistance

We decided the solution is to replace the council by elections

We are under occupation Let's be realistic

The occupier won't allow us to do something before July

without forcing their own conditions

I know from experience there's a decision like that

They are shaking our hand and stabbing us in the back

It's a game!

After July they will allow us a small portion of our freedom

A portion Not the whole thing!

We must beware the factional provocation being sown in Iraq

They had this plan in 1917, when the English occupied Iraq

in the 1st World War, when General Maude took Baghdad

They tried it then, but the Shia and Sunni declared unity

and so their plan failed

So I suggest we not to raise this subject in the elections,

as all groups - Sunni, Shia, Sabians - are true patriots

Even these parties are not legal parties

A party must have a program, some issues they represent

There are no laws governing political parties

Excuse us - let's hear what Sheik Aws has to say

Brothers, we have no time to argue and quarrel

As our brothers have noted, the situation is critical,

and our province is forgotten

This meeting between Islamic and Democracy movements

may be impossible in the future

Perhaps some foreign hand will intervene,

or the Devil may walk between our rows

I don't believe this opportunity will ever be repeated

Our mission and our duty, commanded by God,

is to show the correct path to those who go astray

They are bringing the sins of alcohol to Naseriyah

and people pass by them without protest!

Now we will consider it our duty to ask the faithful

if they pass the flea market and see alcohol sellers.ë

We are warning them against staying there

in the market, selling alcohol

We are an Islamic city!

The Mehdi Army will lead

groups to cleanse this area after three days

following this warning!

The Devil's plan is weak!

And God is on our side!

Praise be to Moqtada, our leader!

We are with you, not Bush! Nor with any oppressor!

The alcohol sellers will escape!

We weren't doing anything, only passing by!

Just keep quiet

By Abbas Bin Ali Bin Ali Talib!

If we were guilty, we would have run!

...and I used to complain about Saddam!

God bless your parents

You! What's the matter with you?

There's nothing wrong with me

After a bit you'll be released

But you asked what's wrong? - Yes, what's the matter?

It's blasphemy! Those wine sellers in the month of Ashura,

and you arrested us!

I won't go Just let me talk with him

I told you: I will release him If he's innocent I'll release him

Sometimes a man might have troubles, even with his family

We were saved from tyranny! And you brought another?

How can it be, brother?

When Saddam fell I rejoiced, but now again I'm blindfolded!

We've returned to Saddam's time once again!

You arrested him in the market?

Yes He was selling alcohol

By God, he was selling auto scrap!

Saddam uprooted my family How is it I'm bound up again?

How can it be? - Stop your noise -

Even God cannot accept it!

You're slandering people In this holy month of Ashura!

What can we do? Today we didn't even eat breakfast

And now you're framing people

We are living through challenging times in this city

We will either live or die

We will close every door of depravity opened by America

And we know that America is preparing our punishment

and will try to destroy us by any means

They fear the Mehdi Army will drive them from Iraq

We are asking in a civil way,

and if we are disappointed in this path

then we must choose another path granted us by God

We turned out in a peaceful demonstration

to call for the release of Mustapha Yacoubi

A lot of people came

The Spanish were on this side, and the people on the other

The Spanish had taken up battle positions

The police were pushed back and began shooting in the air

It seems some of the demonstrators had weapons

A firefight started, many people were shot

On TV we saw the Mehdi Army training in Baghdad

Moqtada's speech made the Americans very nervous

They trampled our holy places, they beat our Imams

The south will not be silent, and no American will feel safe

Where is the Democracy? Is this the Democracy?

Is this the Freedom?

They routed Saddam and now 100 Saddams to replaced him!

America promised a life of comfort, freedom, democracy,

but we knew it was all lies!

The American military claims they have stopped

using some methods of interrogation in Iraq

after revelations of torture of Iraqi detainees

in Abu Graib prison, near Baghdad

As to how what happened in that prison

will reflect on America and the American people ë.

...those disgraceful acts do not reflect our character

As we have broadcast all over the world,

we will conduct a thorough investigation

that the whole world will see

In order to find out the truth

of how these things happened,

whether there were any decisions made,

or orders given, and how they were delivered

And our investigations will be completely different

from what was done under Saddam Hussein

when no investigations were carried out

Has America saved us from the Baathists?

They've changed the faces They removed Saddam,

and here are the Baathists: They brought Alawi his kind

Who can trust America? Who can trust the biggest tyrant?

America is supporting Israel on one side,

and we Muslims trust that America came to help us?

Verily, glory goes to the revolutionary

Glory goes to the resistance

And shame, disgrace and defeat go the occupier!

When will we begin the fight?

You saw what became of the spies

who informed on holy warriors in Sadr City, in Baghdad:

They were hanged from the electricity poles!

So shall it be with all spies

Peace be upon Mohammed and his followers!

Curse his enemies and make victorious his son,

Moqtada! Moqtada! Moqtada!

If Vietnam was able to defeat America,

then we of courage and faith can defeat the enemy,

and expel them, God willing We can do it

If America leaves, these people will be like a return of Saddam

Saddam in a new form, a new image

The city is empty, a ghost town,

and Moqtada's men control it

America promised one thing and did another

They came as liberators and became occupiers

They came to help the people but then turned against us

Against the Iraqi people, against Iraq

That's America

Their problem is they only know how to use force

You have to study the Iraqis to know them

They should learn our customs, our habits ë.

It's impossible to change us with the barrel of a tank

It's impossible

If they bring tanks here then they are against the people

We are in the center of the city It has become a battleground

there are people living here, going to cafes...

...and that's how it is

America wants the bombings!

They are killing civilians in the street

it's deadly serious

They say: "We came to save you from Saddam Hussein"

Who put Saddam in power if not them?

They supported Saddam for 35 years

They want to build a military base here

to steal our wealth and our oil

They want to take everything!

There is only one God!

America is the enemy of God!

Lighten their load, oh God

and bring their spirits to you, oh God

You are all-forgiving, oh God

You are the Mercy and the Blessing, oh God

Look favorably upon their virtues, oh God

If they have done wrong, forgive their trespasses

All of you have come for the sake of your dead

All the dead of the King of Believers, the Shia

I remember all the days

they play before my eyes

In autumn they work the brick ovens

sometimes I go to watch

sometimes I go to the ovens and watch the fire

In the summer it's very hot

Without shade you won't last

You have to sit in the shadows

I will bury you

You'll bury yourself

When you take back moves I lose my desire to play

That's what you always say

You know me too well

You're taking back your moves!

You only say that when you lose

You have won very beautifully

But victory doesn't come easily

That's all

When I was born,

my father named me Mahmoud, after an Imam

My father

He said, "I will let this one study"

And he put me in school

before he died

When my father went to God,

- we had sheep, we lived in the countryside -

They said "Mind the sheep You don't know how to study"

"You won't amount to anything"

I don't want my children to be like me

Let them be different

Sulei!

Come, little white sheep

Sulei, I got my hair cut at a barber

What style did you ask for?

The Arnold

Suleiman is a friend of mine

Sulei! Not like that!

You have destroyed my head!

As we get older, we won't forget each other

We won't say

"Now we're older No need to visit each other"

As we grow older, our friendship must grow stronger

I will be a teacher; Suleiman says he wants to be a doctor

He jokes with me:

"If you become sick, I'll give you the wrong injection!"

"Not the one that makes you better"

Go for five minutes!

And if I last that long? - I'll give you whatever you like

We have loved each other since childhood

Like brothers

When we first moved here

Bizhar and I became best friends

And it's the same at school

Me and Bizhar, we always stuck together

We still walk to school together

If anyone fights with us, we defend each other

Teacher! Teacher! Teacher!

Stand up Suleiman, please, and stand up, Salar

I'm asking, Salar, "Who's that?" - "That is Suleiman"

Clap for him

However much you study, it's not enough

However much you study, it's too little

There are those who only study, and they'll be doctors

And those who haven't studied

They must take any job they can find

I pray my grades are good enough just to pass

The principal and I are on uneven terms

He's always saying "You'll fail" But who knows?

He just says that so you'll study more

Bring them back, Rosho!

Always with the sheep, summer and winter

Why?

I don't want to leave school

I want to go to college and be something

We pray to God to end violence and suffering

to give the Kurdish people rest

I tried hard to put Suleiman in religious school

to become an Imam

I will die soon

In my remaining days I will attend the mosque

and spend my time praying to God

I said to myself, "I have six sons"

"Let one of them be for God,"

"and let the others be for this life"

It is written in the Qur'an, "If we stay alive, we will see"

"Any place touched by sunlight will be governed by Islam"

Now they say the Kurds are blasphemers,

that Kurds brought America to Iraq

They say, "We will behead all the Kurds"

People think the Kurds are blasphemers

But suicide bombers? Can you imagine?

They think it's Jihad, that you'll be a martyr

But if there is religion left it is among the Kurds

In the past, we moved from our village because of poverty

Saddam Hussein destroyed the villages

He turned the area into a wasteland

He changed it into an Arab area

Because bones were broken and blood spilled between us

Our unity and brotherhood will never return

God brought America to the Kurds

He brought her to us, and they liberated Iraq

They toppled the regime

We came out of the darkness into the light

There's been enough war in Iraq

How long can it continue?

Let's lay our weapons down and practice politics

If you compare Jewish people with the Kurds:

They are much fewer

They have their own flag, their own government

They are free and independent

Why can't the Kurds be independent?

Why can't they have their flag?

Even if I don't live to see it, my children will benefit

The Prophet said, "I desire nothing"

He said, "Life is nothing, it is empty, like a house"

"with two doors: you enter on one side and exit on the other"

I want nothing from this life

All my children, from youngest to oldest,

have followed in my footsteps

They are walking in my path

We ask God in His glory to hear our prayer

on this Friday sabbath

Dear brothers

We have all been requested to go

to cast our vote for our future, our country, our nation

To draw it with our hands!

You must sacrifice one day to save a persecuted people

To uncover how an entire nation was buried alive

in the Anfal Campaign!

It's just a paper that you put in the ballot box

The ballot box, my brothers

Many years we fought in the mountains

Many years we struggled against the oppressor

All that was nothing compared with the vote you will cast

The vote that you will cast

is better than 100 bombs and 200 boxes of bullets!

If the Kurds unite they will be something this time around

This is your only paper?

Yes

Then go in

Let them come, brother, let them come!

Check our bodies well!

Until now we have been unknown to the world

Kurdistan! Kurdistan!

Now they will know who we are

You can't stand here, the line is over there

Brothers! Be patient! I'll let all of you in!

Nobody without a form can come in!

Brother, I checked with all the polling stations

Anyone with an ID, just ask for his ration card

so we don't lose any votes for the Iraqi National Assembly

You must mark list 130, it's the Kurdish one

These are for other parties

Put your right index finger in the ink

Yes, this one

Where shall I put this?

I'm illiterate I have my husband with me

Mark 130, it's the Kurdish one

A man who eat these votes and forget me tomorrow,

who will only play with me, I will not vote for this man,

who only wants to fill his pockets

You must support those who support the poor

Now the Kurdish leadership has grown fat

While the poor people are moaning from hunger

This is the truth

If it cannot be, it cannot be

Now it will be hard for Kurds, Sunna and Shia to live together

The future of Iraq will be in three pieces

Iraq is not something that you can cut into pieces

Iraq is a country

And how can you cut a country into pieces?

With a saw?

Kurdistan is like Heaven on Earth for the Kurds

We must protect Kurdistan like our own eyes,

and not let the enemy invade Kurdistan

Those who rely God's grace, God willing, they will succeed

If God is willing, he will give us strength

By God, the spring is very nice, the grass grows.ë

I have forgotten many things

Things don't stay in my mind

When they tell me I was dreaming,

I say, "How can it be a dream?"

"I've never seen such a dream"

and yet I had dreamed it

His father said, "You must herd the sheep"

He had no choice, so he left school

His future will burn

I have no business going to school

I'm the only one left

They won't take anyone who's not a good brick cutter

All these young guys come searching

with their mustaches and their big muscles

From morning until night nobody gives them work

If they can't do even that work, they just go home and lie down

Always lying around.ë

But you must build your life Isn't it so?

Now I work the brick ovens

Then I tend the sheep

My father is getting old, he can't work

If we all went to school, he'd do the work

But we won't let him work

He raised us all Shouldn't we care for him now?

I'm tired I eat quickly so I can lie down

and fall asleep

Now the war is over

Today, everything in Iraq is controlled by America

Nobody can escape America's reach

Two men are wrestling

Someone asks, "Whose side is God on?"

They answer, "God is always on the side of the winner"

Whoever wins, God is on his side

I'm going God be with you