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Thread #114755   Message #2472673
Posted By: bankley
22-Oct-08 - 09:19 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Romany songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Romany songs
thanks for the reminder.... Tradsinger...I look fwd to it and will pass along the info here in Canada

and thanks for those fine songs InOBU...have you recorded any ?

I just want to include "Opre Roma" written by Holocaust survivor, Zarko Jovanovi c, in 1969 and adopted as the official anthem of the International Romani Union at the First World Romani Congress in London in 1971... Zarko wrote this in a van full of Romany activists including Gratton Puxon, Thomas Acton, Vanko Rouda, Juan de Dios Heredia on their way back to London from a bloody protest in the north...

Djelem, djelem, lungone dromensa
Maladilem baxtale Romensa
Djelem, djelem, lungone dromensa
Maladilem baxtale dromensa
Ay Romale, Ay Chavale
Ay Romale, Ay Chavale

Ay Romale, katar tumen aven
Le terensa baxtale dromensa
Vi-man sas u bari familiya
Tal mudardya la e Kali Legiya
Aven mansa so lumiake Roma
Kai putaile le Romane droma
Ake vryama - ushti Rom akana !
Ame xutasa mishto kai kerasa

Ay Romale, Ay Chavale
Ay Romale, Ay Chavale