Ajam Emirati Lullaby
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Ajam Emirati Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by the Ajam community of Persian descent who settled along Dubai and Sharjah’s coast, building the wind-tower houses of Al Bastakiya. Al Bastakiya takes its name from Bastak, a town in Iran that many of its original Persian merchant families came from, and the district’s distinctive barjeel wind towers, still standing today, worked as a natural form of air conditioning centuries before electricity, catching passing breezes and funneling cool air down into the rooms below. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Ajam Emirati Lullaby” Means
The Ajam community of Persian descent settled along Dubai and Sharjah’s coast, building the wind-tower houses of Al Bastakiya and trading textiles and dates for pearls. This original lullaby draws on those wind-tower and trading-port images of Ajam Emirati life.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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