Folk Songs

salam,
this is enough as a start, if you have an interest in a special kind, tell me...
and if you want to know any thing else... just send a note...
take care...
May Allah grant you peace and Light...

salam, this is another short folk song concerning the relation in a family, where the son is leaving since he can't endure the harsh of living...:
...
هَلَّقْ صَعْبي يا بْنَيّي               تُهْجُرْني وْما تْعودْ تْطُلْ
لَمّا بْغَمِّضْ عَيْنَيِّ                  سَكِّرْ بابِ الْبَيْتِ وْفِلْ
...
the translation:
it is hard now my son            to leave me and never return
when i close my eyes            close the door of the house and go...
...
the term "close my eyes" may mean two things:
the first when i'm sleeping since i do not want to say good bye, and the other, is when i'm dead...!

Salam,       
          
* the iron fist: the israeli troops...
** Ansar: is a sothern village, in it the israeli forces build a large imprisonment camp... it was liberated in 1985 (after three years of the second invasion)...

take care...

now the translation --if you need a special kind of folk songs, just tell me...--:

O' south the cradle of my chidhood                                O' your soil is mixed with my hand's sweat
O' you are the tale that waves tell to the sailor                O' you're the lap of my mother and the heart of my father
O' you are an eye that is fighting the nail                       O' you're the real people's revolution
the cradle of childhood and the land birth of free men      you are the destructor of the iron fist*
and you who are surrounding our south with fire               you won't get its land and water
every day a hero is born                                               who's planting a landmine for your troops
and if you block the roads of the revolutionists                and enlarge the prison of slavery
in "Ansar"** the revolutionists                                          will graduate students of freedom

*

Salam,
this is the first folk song concerning the resistance -- you may return to a blog i wrote called: the history of my country --:
يا جْنوبْ يا مَهْدِ الطُّفولِيِّه      يا تْرابْ مَجْبولْ بْعَرَقْ دَيِّه
يا حْكايِةْ الأمْواجْ لِلْبَحّارْ      يا حُضْنْ إمّي وْيا قَلِبْ بَيّي
يا عَيْنْ عَمْ بِتْقاوِمِ الْمِسْمارْ       يا ثَوْرِةِ الشَّعْبِ الْحَقيقيِّه
مَهْدِ الطُّفولِه وْمَعْقَلِ الأحْرارْ      وِمْحَطِّمِ الْقَبْضَه الْحَديديِّه
وْيا مْحاصْرينْ جْنوبنا بِالنّارْ      لا تِطْمَعو بِالأرْضْ وِالْمَيِّه
كِلْ يَوْمْ عَمْ يِخْلَقْ بَطَلْ مِغْوارْ      يُزْرَعْ لُغُمْ عَدَرْبْ دَوْرِيِّه
وْمَهْما تْسِدّو الدَّرْب عَالثُّوّارْ         وِتْكَبْرو سِجْنِ الْعُبودِيِّه
بْأنْصارْ بِالثُّوّارْ مَهْما صارْ         بْيِتْخَرَّجو طُلابْ حُرِّيِّه

Salam,
i will post the arabic text first then a translation afterwards...
if you have any question please do ask...
-- by the way, i'm majored in anthropology and studied folklore too --

Salam,
folk songs in there original language, as lebanese it will be arabic in the lebanese dialect...
if still interested i would share some with you...
and i can offer you a translation...

I can recall singing some of the songs in elementary school from the list in the following site... here's a site with a long list of popular folk songs in America

http://www.contemplator.com/america/

salaams
hmm Hush Little Baby is famous one

goes something like this ... Ohm

Hush little baby dont you cry
Mama's gonna buy you a a mocking bird.

And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Mama's going to buy you
a diamond ring. etc etc