Ma Omrot Einaikh

  • Lyrics: Izhaq Shenhar
  • Music: Mordechai Ze’ira
  • Arrangements: Shem Tov Levi
  • Album: Shirey Moledet 1 (1983)

Ofra: “I sang this song for the first time when I was 12, when I took part in the radio show First Applause. I always loved that song. When made me decide I had to record it was a letter I recieved from Yuval Shenhar, the son of Isaac Shenhar, who wrote the song. He wrote me: ‘I think you are the best singer we have. When you decide to record old songs, I would appriciate it if you would record my father’s song, ‘What Do Your Eyes Say’. My father would have loved to hear it in your voice, even though famous singers already sang it'”.
  • Transliteration
  • Translation

Ma Omrot Einaikh
Shemesh, shemesh red la-yam
Ru’ach, ru’ach kal yehom
Mi kholem, kholem alayikh
Be-mishlat, mishlat arom

Shnei orot ba-layl, ba-layl, ba-layl
Li romzim, romzim pit’om
Ma omrot einaikh, einaikh, einaikh
Bli lomar ad tom, ad tom

Bein sla’im, sla’im ve-har
Etz boded, boded yanum
Mi holekh, holekh elayikh
Im eruv, eruv ha-yom

Shnei orot ba-layl, ba-layl, ba-layl
Li romzim, romzim pit’om
Ma omrot einaikh, einaikh, einaikh
Bli lomar ad tom, ad tom

Boker, boker et ya’or
Ve-ashuv, ashuv milakhom
Ha-emtsa, emtsa adayin
Zekher, zekher la-khalom

Shnei orot ba-layl, ba-layl, ba-layl
Li romzim, romzim pit’om
Ma omrot einaikh, einaikh, einaikh
Bli lomar ad tom, ad tom

Bli lomar ad tom, ad tom