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Song identification from literary source?

Eric Stern Music - 6-3-2020 at 04:26 PM

One of my students asked me to identify a song. I'm stumped, and I thought I'd throw it out to the oud forum. Thanks in advance. Here is his query:

Hi Eric,

I’m trying to track down a literary reference - from Sahar Khalifeh’s novel, Wild Thorns. Farid al-Atrash is mentioned a lot in it. The final reference seems to be to a song called something like "My Birthday Returns” in English. Do you know what song that might be?

Thanks.

Joel

MoH - 6-3-2020 at 07:33 PM

Is this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O911Etl_xgk

The title is something like "You have returned, oh my birthday".

Eric Stern Music - 6-4-2020 at 08:14 PM

I think that's the one. Than you!:)