Cheb Khaled - Wahrane, Wahrane / شب خالد - وهران وهران

شب خالد - وهران وهران

وهران وهران رحتي خساره

هجروا منك ناس شطارى

قعدوا في الغربه حيارى

و الغربه صعيبه و غداره

يا فرحي على اولاد الحمري

اولاد مدينه و سيدي الهواري

عديت معاهم صغري

لهم فني طول عمري

ما احلى صهريات بلادي

القصبه و القلالي صادي

يا اللي ماشين ليها غادي

وصوا يتهلوا في بلادي

عمري ما ننسى بلادي

أرضي و أرض اجدادي

وصيت اهلي على الناس

تركوا دينهم و تبعوا الكاس

يا الزينه بالكاس و المايده

راه عشره بلا فايده

وعدي على الطحطحه وعدي

كان زينها زين الودادي

رجعت غمه في فؤادي

وليت نبكي و ننادي

Cheb Khaled - Wahrane, Wahrane

Wahrane, Wahrane you went to hell

All the clever people left you

They remain homesick and confused

And this homesickness is hard and traitorous           

My happiness is with the children of el Hamri (a district of Oran)

Children of the city and Sidi el Houari (a neighborhood in Oran where Khaled was from)

I spent my youth with them

My art is for them for all my life

How beautiful are the nights my country

The flutes and drums echo

Oh those who are going to her

Ask them to take care of my country

I'll never forget my country so long as I live

My land and the land of my ancestors

I asked my family about the people

They've left their religion and turned to the bottle (litearlly, followed the cup)

A dozen cups on the table

Drank ten of them with no effect

Sorry for the the empty space

Her beauty was a wondrous beauty

Sadness entered in my heart

And so I cry and call out