photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

lhammer43 Loc: San Antonio, TX

Now that brings a tear to my eye and a memory of an old coon hound named Shucks😢🤧 from back in Coon Holler days👌🔨⏱

Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

Wikipedia tells us that “Malaika is a Swahili song written by Tanzanian musician Adam Salim in 1945. The lyrics of the song differ slightly from version to version.” Actually, it originally had only two verses, but various artists, as is so often their way, have presumed to “improve” on the original conception, so you may find various lyrics and instrumentalisations on the web.

I remember hearing it first (and perhaps best) sung, sotto voce, by our gardener in Kenya as he went about his business. Here is a rendering with the Swahili and English lyrics provided in sub-titles, by the great Miriam Makeba.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCh58peMl98

Song translations do not always work out well, but here's one.

Angel, I love you angel
Angel, I love you angel
and I, what should I do, your young friend
I am defeated by the bride price that I don't have
I would marry you, angel
I am defeated by the bride price that I don't have
I would marry you, angel

Little bird, I think of you little bird
Little bird, I think of you little bird
and I, what should I do, your young friend
I am defeated by the bride price that I don't have
I would marry you, angel
I am defeated by the bride price that I don't have
I would marry you, angel

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PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

I mistook this as "Wooden Heart."

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Thank you so much for posting this - a love song from another culture and, accurate or not, the words are beautiful as is "the little bird"

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

That works too.

judy juul Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

LOVE it Rufe!!

judy juul Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

Very touching, lovely lady!

ThomJ4 Loc: Meridian, ID

Four of my favorite people whom I love deeply.

I love you Nana


Even after 50 years

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

"Can't help falling in love with you"

Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

For those of us who knew Roger Whittaker as just another kid at school, and who, like him, left Africa with heavy hearts, his "Last Farewell" is the perfect expression of the melancholy that many of us still feel all these years later.

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

For you are beautiful, and I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, and I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

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judy juul Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

Would like to be there to give BIG Hugs!!

JustJill Loc: Iowa

I was out for lunch with a friend today when I saw these mannequins in the restaurant. This was taken with my cell phone.

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