وَأَنتِ التي حَبَّبتِ شَغبي إِلى بَدا

وَأَنتِ التي حَبَّبتِ شَغبي إِلى بَدا

إِلَيَّ وَأَوطاني بِلادٌ سِواهُما

إِلَيَّ وَأَوطاني بِلادٌ سِواهُما

And you are the one who made Shaghbi, as far as Bada, dear

You are the one who made my mischief dear to the wilderness

To me, though my homelands are lands other than those two.

And to me my homelands are no lands but them

وَحَلَّت بِهَذا حَلَّةً ثُمَّ أَصبَحَت

وَحَلَّت بِهَذا حَلَّةً ثُمَّ أَصبَحَت

بِأُخرى فَطابَ الوادِيان كِلاهُما

بِأُخرى فَطابَ الوادِيان كِلاهُما

And she lodged here for a stay, then by morning was

It dawned in this guise then in another

At another place; so both valleys became pleasant.

So the two valleys were pleasant each

إِذا ذَرَفَت عَينايَ أَعتَلُّ بالقَذى

إِذا ذَرَفَت عَينايَ أَعتَلُّ بالقَذى

وَعَزَّةُ لَو يَدري الطَبيبُ قَذاهُما

وَعَزَّةُ لَو يَدري الطَبيبُ قَذاهُما

Whenever my eyes shed tears, I blame it on grit,

When my eyes shed tears I feign having an eye disease

And Azza—if the physician only knew—is the grit in them both.

Though dignity, if the doctor knew the cause of them

فَلَو تُذرِيانِ الدَمعَ مُنذُ استَهَلَّتا

فَلَو تُذرِيانِ الدَمعَ مُنذُ استَهَلَّتا

عَلى إِثرِ جازي نِعمَةٍ لَجَزاهُما

عَلى إِثرِ جازي نِعمَةٍ لَجَزاهُما

So, had they shed tears ever since they first wept,

If only they would shed tears since they first started

In the wake of one who repays kindness, he would have repaid them both.

In return for one who rewarded kindness, I would reward them