Mm’mma

  • Lyrics: Ofra Haza and Bezalel Aloni
  • Music: Ofra Haza and Bezalel Aloni
  • Arrangements: Thomas Dolby
  • Album: Desert Wind (1989)

Ofra: “I believe that artists are capable of moving things much better and faster than politicians. Bezalel and I wrote this song about the remnants of the Jewish community in Yemen. They are in desperate need of help, and no one is reaching out to them. I feel that not enough is being done for them. I tried to harness my popularity for their sake.”
  • Lyrics
  • Translation

Mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
WA CHA USHAR YA ANOO OTO
KEN YIR BAH WA CHEN YEF ROS

Cry, oh baby, cry, oh baby, cry
My brothers are still far away too far
Thousand years of yearning in your sigh
Cry, oh baby, cry for a sign

My brothers are there
Nobody cares
Nobody cares
If they are homeless
My brothers are there
Nobody cares
Can't someone see
How they need a homeland

Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma

ADO NOY RO EEY LO AH SOR
SHMOR MI YOM HA MOR WA HA NIM HOR
MI YO VI MAR GO WHA LA NAF SHI
HO SI ANI LA HOF SHI

My brothers are there
Nobody cares
No one should ever
Be homeless
My brothers are there
Nobody cares
Can't someone see
How they need a homeland

Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma

YASH KEF ALO HIM MI ME ON
(KOD SHO) WE YACH…

Cry, oh baby, cry, oh baby, cry
Cry, oh baby, cry, oh baby, cry

Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma
Mm'mma mm'mma mm'mma