Muyhoytü äji dukhdär?

The Music of the Mountain Jews
The Music of the Mountain Jews
Muyhoytü äji dukhdär?

Purim Abramova


Muyhoytü äji dukhdär? ("Where is your hair"), is a wedding song in form of a dialogue between a boy and a girl. The boy asks "Where is your hair?" and the girl answers "My hair is like a dark night." In subsequent stanzas each part of the woman's face is depicted in a similair manner with suggestive metaphors. The theme of this song is well-known in ancient Persian, Arabic and Hebrew literature.

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