Je m'appelle Bagdad [English translation]

I lived happily

In my palaces of black gold and precious stones

The Tigris River used to flow

On the crystal cobblestones

A thousand caliphs jostled

On my dance floors ....

They called me the City full of grace

Oh God, how time passes fast

They called me the capital of light

Oh God, how everything is lost ...

(Chorus)

My name is Baghdad

And I fell under the fire of the tanks

My name is Baghdad, a disfigured princess

And Scheherazade; she forgot me ..

Forgot me ..

I live on my lands as a poor beggar

under the bulldozers

Ghosts haunt me

I cry over the ruins of my beauty

Under the smoldering stones

It's my soul that they're murdering ..

They called me the capital of light

Oh God, how everything is lost ...

(Chorus)

My tales of the One thousand and one nights

Don't interest anyone any more ..

They've destroyed everything

They've destroyed everything ...

(Chorus)

She forgot me ....