Zaki Mourad / Taqtuqah: Hatili yamma 'asfuri هاتي لي يا امّه عصفوري (Gramphone. Different Version)

[AlfLeila]

Zaki Mourad
Taqtuqah: Hatili yamma 'asfuri
Gramophone matrix# 4828/29. Issue# 7-212004/05
1915
talheen: Dawud Hosni
maqam nawa (jins bayati on d'-duqah + jins rast on g'-nawa)

this is the second time Zaki effendi recorded this same taqtuqah with gramophone. the 1912 version can be found here.

[fredlag@noos.fr]

The quality is amazing. Different dulab, typically Zaki Murad layālī (we will have, some day, to work on what makes him immediately recognizable in layālī). I name this maqām bayyati tahir, i.e. same scale as husayni but instance on rāst nawa instead of bayyati on husayni. Amusing moment when Sami and Zaki don't agree on when to start the second ghusn.
What Sami does around 5'05"-5'10" (targama fī l-gawāb) is siḥr ḥalāl, as well of course as the end of the record starting 5'50".
Now, concerning the lyrics, is it pure nonsense, or various sexual innuendos, or a mix of both ?

[AlfLeila]

Now, concerning the lyrics, is it pure nonsense, or various sexual innuendos, or a mix of both ?

you're asking me??