Couscous making, walking to the mikve and singing

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster Perets (Sandrosi)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
School maintenance employee
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
74
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2019
Translator: 
Evgeniya (Jenia) Gutova
Transcriptor: 
Evgeniya (Jenia) Gutova

Transcription: 

Lalaylalaadaylalalalalali

Ha-nn Ayt lmušab ɛlaḫir a ɣ llan-i

People of Lmushab are fine

Matiša tlla ɣ ssnduq ur tt iri yan-i (x2)

Tomatoes are in boxes, nobody needs them (x2)

A ha-nn lḫyar llah aɣyul-a mi t-akkan-i

Look, by God, cucumber is given to donkey

A ha-nn ayt tmazirt tammara a ɣ llan-i

People in the homeland are in misery

Matiša tga sttin lḫyar ntta ḫmsin-i

Tomatoes are 60 (ryal) and cucumbers are 50 (ryal)

Ssilima d lqhwa ha-nn tmɣam lmsakin-i

Cinema and cafe are making poor people suffer

Bn Guryun a sidi išwa leḥkam nnun-i

Sir Ben Gurion, your way of governing is good

Izzur lkbiš ula ḍḍaw ula ttinifuṛ-i

As it arranged the sewer, electricity and the phone line.

A ha-nn almal ingi d nettan s tassaɛin-i

Money is flowing every hour

Illa dar zik illa dark a yammas n wass-i

                           It is available early in the morning and in the midday