A love song to Australia is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Paul Abdul Ahad

LYGON STREET

-1-

I love you

I said to a pretty brunette

As young as a gardenia

A girl from Melbourne with a blooming face

And red rose cheeks

Lygon Street lit by her

By her smile

Which threw me by a live coal

Help me Lygon

To spend an evening

With The woman

Who made me drunk

Without the glass and the wine

-2-

Your visitors became upset

When they saw me saying farewell

With my tears

The pizza got cooler

We didn't even taste it

The restaurant asked me

For the due money

The love moments we had

Were attested by my foolish moments

The best walk we had

Was on your footpath

O, friend of lovers,

You're awaking the whole world

-3-

Inside you I'm hiding my love story

Which I'm telling with distracted mind

I came to you from Sydney

On my way

Her shadow was standing like a giant.

?I loved her

Don't ask my heart

Of your nights I beg her love

She picked me off expatriation's cold

And forced me to imprint on my lips

O, Lygon your evening isn't cold

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