1. Bring me a drink, O boy
For the month of fasting has passed

2. And play the strings of a beautiful oud
With lovely melodies of love

3. My Salma friends got together
Celebrating them is an obligation

4. Spring has visited the meadows
Hello, let there be peace all around

5. Come let us go to those
Who never knew dispute

6. Leave politics to the unworthy
Who have mastered empty talk

7. They wore silk while our people
Find no food, O Spring

8. They broke pacts, no loyalty
No fidelity, no integrity

9. Your solitude sickened them
Pervading their bones

10. So they finished you off
While your people's noses are in the dust

11. You see them restless yet
Truly they are asleep

12. If I get drunk and do not wake
There is no pain and I'll feel no regret

13. If I drink deep from the cup
It's from the tyranny of the vile

14. When I listen to the flute
And the oud, will the imam call it blasphemy?

15. O Spring, bring me news of your people
Afflicted am I with illness

16. Where are the drums and where is your rhythm?
Where is your tall graceful figure?

17. Where is the kohl-eyed gazelle
For whom arrows were let loose?

18. The tambourine on your chest, my friend
Is the finest ornament

19. O Spring, you wasted time
Counting years, year after year

20. Say, did you see anything but
Life followed by a funeral?