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Morghe Sahar

Young masters Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Hengameh Akhavan, and Bijan Kamkar play the timeless Iranian gem of a song.

I am off for the three-day weekend, entertaining long awaited relatives, cooking, and eating with my family, something that is more of a novelty for me these days. I'm around, so time permitting, I will come and check in. I leave you with a song this Friday. It is one of the hundreds of renditions of the timeless gem of an Iranian song, Morghe Sahar (bird of dawn). No matter who sings it and plays it, on a stage, on a CD, in a home and by masters or amateurs, this is a song I love to hear, never getting tired of it. As the song was written for Ghamarolmolook Vaziri by Maestro Morteza Neidavood, I believe it is best sung by a woman.

I hope you all have a good weekend, full of joy and peace. Take a romantic walk in a peaceful place (yes, you can take a romantic walk by yourself, too! Cite poetry to yourself, that's how!), and don't forget to take any chance to tell those in your life that you love them. Be good y'all.

مرغ سحر، ناله سر کن...................داغ مرا تازه تر کن

ز آه شرربار، این قفس را..................بر شکن و زیر و زبر کن

بلبل پر بسته ز کنج قفس درآ............نغمه’ آزادی نوع بشر سرا

وز نفسی عرصه’ این خاک توده را.......پر شرر، پر شرر کن

ظلم ظالم، جور صیاد.......................آشیانم، داده بر باد

ای خدا، ای فلک، ای طبیعت............شام تاریک ما را سحر کن

نو بهار است، گل به بار است...........ابر چشمم، ژاله بار است

این قفس چون دلم تنگ و تار است

شعله فکن در قفس ای آه آتشین.....دست طبیعت گل عمر مرا مچین

جانب عشق نگه ای تازه گل، از این...بیشتر کن، بیشتر کن، بیشتر کن

مرغ بی دل، شرح هجران...............مختصر، مختصرکن، مختصر کن