This week we were fortunate enough to receive recordings of four Arabic songs from Lebanon. I’m posting one of the songs below for you to hear.

Here’s Tic Tic Tic Sleiman’s Mother in Arabic, with an English translation and the transliteration, so you can listen along to hear how to pronounce it.

If you’d like to have the computerized text. You can find it on the Tic Tic Tic Sleiman’s Mother song page.

MP3 of Tic Tic Tic Sleiman’s Mother

Tic Tic Tic Sleiman’s Mother
English Translation

Tic Tic Tic Sleiman’s mother
Tic Tic Tic where was your husband?
Tic Tic Tic he was in the fields
Picking plums and pomegranates.

Tic Tic Tic y’am sleiman
Transliteration

Tic Tic Tic y’am sleiman
Tic Tic Tic jawsik wan kan?
Tic Tic Tic kan bil haqle
am yektouf khawkh wou remman

Many thanks to Rima for contributing this song, to Haya for contributing the lyrics in Arabic writing and to Sandy Tanios Jean for singing this song for us! Shukran!

If you’d like to hear more recordings of Arabic kids songs, click the following link to visit our Lebanon Arabic Children’s Song Pages and the Palestinian Children’s Song Pages.