I'll always return to you

(this is the chorus)
har bit derin ellakh (I'll always return to you)
ya yemmed mathwatha (The mother of the villages)
mokhneyen d khazinnon (I miss seeing you)
toraneh o dashyatha (The mountains and the plains)

mokhneyewin minnakh (I miss you)
anee yaleh o bnatha (the children and girls)
bekhdaren jaddanakh (I wonder around your streets)
dana d asiryatha (in the evenings)

(chorus)

ya alqosh ya yemmee (Alqosh, my mother)
ya kaloo d mathwatha (The bride of the villages)
ya yemma d gabbareh (The mother of the titans)
o aryeh d go tasheetha (The lions of the history)
oh shimmakh baseema, (Your nice name,)
leh ateh l manshetha (it can't be forgotten)
go libbee b natrinneh, (In my heart I'll protect it,)
hal doh youmed motha (until the day of death.)

(chorus)

rabban hormiz dera, (Saint Hormiz Monastery,)
teewa l resha d tora (it's sitting on top of the mountain)
nasheh kee jameewa (People used to get together)
youma gora d shera (in the day of feast)
akh l dan youmaneh (Oh those days)
noora b libbee sheera (The flaming fire in my heart)
mokhneyen d khazinnon (I miss seeing you,)
kol kha zoora o gora (every young and man)

(chorus)

kma d oree youmanee (How many days were gone,)
b shinneh d ghareebootha (in the years of yearning)
leh manshinnakh ana (I won't forget you)
leh manshin oh betha (I won't forget that house)
har bid derin ellakh (I'll always return to you)
en hoya b sebootha (even if I'm aging)
akh deyakh ya mathee, (Like you my village,)
let go kolleh breetha (there isn't in all of existence)

(chorus)