Eman

COUNTRY: Turkey
LANGUAGE: Kurdish
A protest song by Turkish/Kurdish pop star Aynur, who is controversial in Turkey because she sometimes sings in her native Kurdish language. The song comments on the Turkish government’s plan to build a dam that will flood a Kurdish village. According to a Kurdish blogger who helped All Around This World with Kurdish translations, “‘Eman’ is like a sigh or groan, or ‘Ooooohhhhh’ or ‘oh my!’ It can also be translated as ‘for Heaven’s sake.'”
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Şeva tarî şeva tarî eman eman, seva tarî şeva tarî eman eman
The night is dark but I am here, the night is dark but I am here
Eman eman eman eman

Şeva tarî şeva tarî eman eman, seva tarî şeva tarî eman eman
I am a bird high in the air, above a town that won’t be there
Eman eman eman eman

[wpspoiler name=”Lyrics of All Around This World version” open=”true”]Şeva tarî şeva tarî eman eman, seva tarî şeva tarî eman eman
There’s water flowing everywhere, there’s water flowing everywhere[/wpspoiler]