{"id":13297,"date":"2021-10-08T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=13297"},"modified":"2021-10-08T01:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T04:50:31","slug":"dalidas-song-helwa-ya-baladi-interpreted-by-ms-carla-chamoun-and-dedicated-by-bambi-to-both-canada-and-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/dalidas-song-helwa-ya-baladi-interpreted-by-ms-carla-chamoun-and-dedicated-by-bambi-to-both-canada-and-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalida&#8217;s song, &#8220;Helwa ya baladi&#8221;, interpreted by Ms. Carla Chamoun, and dedicated by Bambi to both Canada and Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Music-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13298\" width=\"141\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Music-1.png 920w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Music-1-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Music-1-768x567.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 141px) 85vw, 141px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/CanadaLebanon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13299\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What a beautiful interpretation of Dalida&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Helwa ya baladi<\/em>&#8221; [which means <em>my beautiful<\/em> <em>country<\/em>] by Ms. Carla Chamoun (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalida\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalida<\/a>). Bravo!  An English translation of the lyrics (found online from an anonymous source) appear following this <em>LBCI<\/em>, <em>LB2<\/em>, and <em>LDC YouTube <\/em>video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If she may, Bambi would like to dedicate this beautiful song to her two life loves (OK three with her spouse :): First, to her Canada (wishing it to shine again!). Second, to her birth country. Tragically, Lebanon is struggling to (economically) survive. However, and of course, this old land will remain eternal. Yes, a brighter future is ahead of tiny bankrupt yet resilient Lebanon, even if this will take its time&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Helwa Ya Baladi - Carla Chamoun \u062d\u0644\u0648\u0629 \u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0644\u062f\u064a - \u0643\u0627\u0631\u0644\u0627 \u0634\u0645\u0639\u0648\u0646\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2kOLxRh0q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>A beautiful word and many more<br> My country is beautiful<br> A beautiful song and many more<br> My country is beautiful<br> My hope was always<br> To come back to you, my country<br> And stay with you forever<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Memories from the past<br>My country I remember<br>My heart is full of stories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My country, I remember<br>My first love was in my country<br>It&#8217;s impossible for me to forget<br>Where the old days<br>Before leaving<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We used to say that separation was impossible<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And every tear on the cheeks used to drop<br>Filled with lots of hope that we will stay<br>In the sea of love<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A beautiful word and many more<br>My country is beautiful<br>A beautiful song and many more<br>My country is beautiful<br>Where the love of my heart<br>Was away from me<br>And every time we sing<br>I think of him<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tell me love, where are you going and leaving me<br>It&#8217;s the most beautiful song we&#8217;re both going to sing<br>My country is a beautiful word to be singing between the lines<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A beautiful word and many more<br>My country is beautiful<br>A beautiful song and many more<br>My country is beautiful<br>My hope was always<br>To come back to you, my country<br>And stay with you forever&#8221;<\/em>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/heart-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13300\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/heart-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/heart-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 85vw, 202px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a beautiful interpretation of Dalida&#8217;s &#8220;Helwa ya baladi&#8221; [which means my beautiful country] by Ms. Carla Chamoun (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalida). Bravo! An English translation of the lyrics (found online from an anonymous source) appear following this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13314,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions\/13314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}