Yedí Kulé (Música Sefardí/Sephardic Song)

Performers: Samira Kadiri&Ensemble Arabesque

La fortaleza Kule Yedi («siete torres») en Estambul se ha utilizado para la defensa, como un tesoro y como una prisión.
Cuando los prisioneros eran decapitados allí, sus cabezas eran arrojados al mar …

Yedí Kulé verás empaseando
De altas murallas saradeado

En la prisión esto’ por tí atado
En el budrúm lloro desmasalado

Me quitaron la luz, esto’ sufriendo
Y la muerte venir, niña esto’ viendo

Yo sto en la prisión, tú en las flores
Sufro de corazón, quiero que llores

Por el Yedí Kulé ven paseando
Mira en que hali yo sto pasando

Fostanico preto cale hacerte
y a la quehilá echar aceite

Yedí Kulé (Trad. Sephardic lament)
The fortress Yedí Kulé («seven towers») in Istanbul has been used for defence, as a treasury and as a prison.
When prisoners were beheaded there, their heads were thrown down into the sea…

If you pass by Yedi Kule you will see the prison,
surrounded by multiple tall walls.

There you will find me- because of you- tighed
and in the cell I am mourning hopelessly.

They deprived me of light, my life has been unbearable,
I see death in person -my dear- across from me.

I am in prison, you among the flowers
I suffer in my heart, I want you to cry

Come, walk by the Yedí Kulé
See the misery I have to endure

Let a black dress be made for you
and make an offering of oil in the Synagogu