O KEMAL - Aliki Kayaloglou

O KEMAL Music: Manos Hadjidakis Lyric : Nikos Gatsos Αλίκη Καγιαλόγλου Listen to the story of Kemal a young prince of the East descendant of Sinbad the Sailor who thought he could change the world. But bitter is the will of Allah and dark the souls of men. In the lands of the East once upon a time the purse was empty and the water stagnant. In Mosul and Basra on the old coconut tree the children of the desert now cry bitter tears. And a young man of an old and royal line hears the lament and heads that way. the Bedouins look at him sadly and he gives them an oath in Allah’s name, that times will change. When the lords heard of the lad’s fearlessness they set out with wolf’s teeth and lion’s skin from Tigris to Euphrates, from the earth to the heavens they hunt for the deserter, to capture him alive.