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    Sebe Allah Y'E

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Sebe Allah Y'E lyrics

La ila ilalao Mahamadou rassoulilaï
Mahamadou rassoulilaï
Sébé Alla yé, sélé Allah yé... sé
Sébé Alla yé, sélé Allah yé sé
Sébé Alla yé, sélé Allah yé sé, yé sé
Sébé Alla yé, n'ko sébé Allah yé sé
Sé mibi néyé
Sé mibi iléyé
Allah kodi iléda
Ni mi-bi iléla
Ni mi-bé néla
Allah kohodo anougou la
Sé mibi iléyé
N'ko sé mibé n'néyé
Massa ko oni annougoula
 
Téré béyé
Kalo béyé
Fôgnon ni dji béyan
Mogohou béye
Sogohou béye
Djinanhou fanan béhantchêman
Téré béyé
Kalo béyé
Fôgnon ni dji béyan
Mogohou béye
Sogohou béye
Djinanhou fanan béhantchêman
 
N'ko sébé Allah yé, sébé Alla yé sé
Sébé Allah yé, sébé Allah yé sé
Sébé Allah yé sé, sébé Allah yé sé, sé, sé
Sébé Allah yé sé, sébé Allah yé sé
Séri séri, n'gouyé séri n'téri
Séri séri Allah dari n'téri
 
Dougoukoro bé ansé kôro
Sangoro béankounan
Dougoukoro béansé kôrô
Lolohou béankounan
Séri séri, n'gouyé séri n'téri
Séri séri massa dari n'téri
 

 

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malucamaluca
   Sat, 08/08/2015 - 14:55

You marked this as Finnish, but it looks more like an African language to me...
Wikipedia says he sings some songs in Baoulé or Dioula, so it might be one of these languages. :)

michealtmichealt    Sat, 08/08/2015 - 20:22

Itt might well be Jula/Dyula/Diula/Dioula - spelling of the language/dialect's name isn't fixed. According to some, it's a dialect of Manding; according to others, it's language and Manding is not a language but a language group (les langues Mandées, as opposed to Mandingue which is one of them).

fr.wikipedia.org says all the songs on the album this was released on are in Dioula, French, Arabic or Hebrew, and it's certainly not French or Hebrew; it might be Arabic - the end of the first line sounds rather like the only Arabic phrase I know, "Muhammad is the messenger of God", except that it ends with /ɐ:.i/ instead of /ɐ:/ and begins with /mah'o̞mɐdu:/ instead of /moh'ame̞də/ - and the second line is much the same (it ends /ɐ:i/ where the first line ends /ɐ:.i/); but that could be my tin ear (I definitely have a tin ear for Arabic) or just a local pronunciation a bit different from the one I am perhaps misremembering being in Egypt for a couple of weeks more than a decade ago).

There are a couple of English translations on the web, but the translators drop bits of French into their English and anyway don't always make sense.

malucamaluca
   Sat, 08/08/2015 - 21:10

Yes, the first line (two lines) looked like Arabic to me, too.
I guess the rest is Dioula then, that's Alpha Blondy's mother tongue as it seems...