Author: AYGABER

English translation of the text is by Ani Toroyan (Անի Թորոյան). Armenian folk song “Hay Merik” (Oh, Mother) performed by Sassoun Ensemble. In Armenian (հայերեն): This is the song of a young foreigner which seems to be a letter to his family. Being far away from his motherland, family and relatives, especially parents, he suffers from nostalgia and longing, and dreams of returning to them. In the foreign country he doesn’t have a place where after hard work he can lie and rest. Being far away from his parents, he thinks of himself as a basil stem devoid of leaves,…