Evin Agassi
An Appeal to the United Nations

Chorus
YAA KHE-LAA-WAA-TEH JOO-REH
oh great powerful nations
MEL-CHEH[1] JAA-BAA-REH[2].
mighty[2] kings[1].
HE-LOON AA-RRAA-TAN[3] QAA-TAAN
give us -our land-[3]
MAARR-MAAKH LAA AA-TAAN[33].
and we shall raise -our flag-[33]

SHOO-QOON QAT OOM-TAAN[4] KHA-YAA
let -our nation-[4] live
KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
it wants to live
OOM-TAAN KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
our nation wants to live.
SHOO-QOON QAAT KHA-YAA.
let it live.

BU-YAAKH CHTAA-WAA[5] QAA-LAA-MAA[6].
we want our own book[5] and pen[6] (we want our language to prosper)
BU-YAAKH KHA-YOO-TAA SHLAA-MAA[7].
we want to live in peace[7].
LAA DREE-MOON BOM-BEH L' RREE-SHAAN[8]
don't pour bombs on -our heads-[8]
LA BER-BIZ-LOON[9] NAA-SHAAN.
stop spreading[9] (scattering) our people around the world.

CHMA AA-WAA-RAA[10] BIKH-DAA-RAA
how many homeless/landless[10] people wandering
MIN TAA-RAA[11] L' TAA-RAA WAA-RAA.
from door[11] to door they are entering.
SHOO-QOON AAT-RAN BAA-NAAKH[12] LEH
let us build[12] our land
TAA-RRAA D ERR-KHEH[13] PAAT-KHAAKH LEH.
and we shall open OUR doors for guests[13].

Chorus
YAA KHE-LAA-WAA-TEH JOO-REH
oh great powerful nations
MEL-CHEH[1] JAA-BAA-REH[2].
mighty[2] kings[1].
HE-LOON AA-RRAA-TAN[3] QAA-TAAN
give us -our land-[3]
MAARR-MAAKH LAA AA-TAAN[33].
and we shall raise -our flag-[33]

SHOO-QOON QAT OOM-TAAN[4] KHA-YAA
let -our nation-[4] live
KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
it wants to live
OOM-TAAN KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
our nation wants to live.
SHOO-QOON QAAT KHA-YAA.
let it live.

KHTEE-TAA LA KHTEE-TAA LA
it's a sin, it's a sin
KHTEE-TAA KTIW-TAA TUSH-EE-TA[14].
our history[14] writes it as a sin

OH BAAR-NAA-SHA[15] QAA-MAA-YAA[16]
that the first[16] humans[15] (civilization)
LAA KHAA BE-TAA[17] BI-KHAA-YA.
don't even have a home[17] to live in.

LAA KHPOO-ROON AA-RRAA-TAAN
stop excavating our lands
LAA LAA-BE-LOON QAA-YAAM-YAA-TAAN[18].
stop taking our statues[18] and antiquities.
KHA-YAA-NAA MAA-RRAA-WAA-TEH[19]
the owners[19] of these lands are still living
SHOO-QOON KHA-YAAN L' AA-RRAA-TAAN.
let them live on their land.

Chorus
YAA KHE-LAA-WAA-TEH JOO-REH
oh great powerful nations
MEL-CHEH[1] JAA-BAA-REH[2].
mighty[2] kings[1].
HE-LOON AA-RRAA-TAN[3] QAA-TAAN
give us -our land-[3]
MAARR-MAAKH LAA AA-TAAN[33].
and we shall raise -our flag-[33]

SHOO-QOON QAT OOM-TAAN[4] KHA-YAA
let -our nation-[4] live
KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
it wants to live
OOM-TAAN KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
our nation wants to live.
SHOO-QOON QAAT KHA-YAA.
let it live.

NISH-RRAA[20] KEY KHA-YAA GOO TdOO-RRAA-NEH[21]
the eagle[20](the Assyrians) live in the mountains[21]
LAA QAA-PAAS JOON-QIN-TAA[22].
not in a rusted cage

LA SHMOO-TOON[23] JOOL-PAA-NEH[24] D PRAA-KHAA[25].
don't break[23] its flying[25] wings[24].
-HEL EEMAN-[26] PER-QIT MIN PRAA-KHAA
-until when-[26] shall it be safe to fly.

BET KHAAZ-DAAKH[27] B' EEDAA D GAA-NAAN
we shall cultivate[27] with our own hands
QAA-NAN LAAKH-MAA[28] SOOM-QAA-NAA[29].
nd earn our -daily (blessed)-[29] bread[28].
AKH-CHEE HE-LOON KHEE-RROOTA[30]
just give us our freedom[30]
KOO-LAN KHA-YAAKH SHWAA-WOO-TAA[31]
and we shall all live as neighbors[31].

Chorus
YAA KHE-LAA-WAA-TEH JOO-REH
oh great powerful nations
MEL-CHEH[1] JAA-BAA-REH[2].
mighty[2] kings[1].
HE-LOON AA-RRAA-TAN[3] QAA-TAAN
give us -our land-[3]
MAARR-MAAKH LAA AA-TAAN[33].
and we shall raise -our flag-[33]

SHOO-QOON QAT OOM-TAAN[4] KHA-YAA
let -our nation-[4] live
KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
it wants to live
OOM-TAAN KHA-YOO-TA BAA-YAA
our nation wants to live.
SHOO-QOON QAAT KHA-YAA.
let it live.


PERFORMED AND COMPOSED BY EVIN AGHASSI
LYRICS BY GIVERGIS AGHASSI
ALBUM: UNITED NATIONS


MELCHA - king,** MELCH'E - kings, ** MALICHTA - queen
ARRA - land
OOMTA - nation, ** OOMTEE - my nation, ** OOMPTOOKH - your nation.
SHLAMA - peace, can also be used in a greeting (SHLAMALOOKH (M) /SHLAMALAKH (F) - peace be among you.
BANAKH - build (verb)
QAMAYA - first , ** KHARRAYA - last
ATAN - our flag, ** ATA - flag




AN APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS
A song that has been translated and distributed to all the United Nation members. The deception by the British for a proclimation mandate for the creation of an Assyrian state caused death of 1,600,000 Assyrian lives by massacres from the Turkish, Arabs, and Kurdish populous. After World War One, the Assyrians ("The Smallest Allie" as the British called us) suffered great casualties and a started a mass exodus to countries around the world (especially between the years 1919 and 1923.) The burdon of blame falls upon the shoulders of the British (as if they don't have enough blood on their hands) for pulling the rug on the mandate, garanteeing an Assyrian State and having us fall before the Muslim sword. Indelible as our blood is on British hands, it is also shared with the perpitrators of the massacres. The same perpitrators of the attempted genicide of 1,100,000 of our Christian brothers, the Armenians, in Western Turkey. Our suffrage and the Armenians is not well acknowledged by most of the world. Our persecution still continues. It is one of the only areas in the world where a first class population is treated as second class citizens by third class people. Dispursed throughout the world, Assyrians current enemy is assimilation. Gratified that we can live in such a beatiful country, a great burden is placed on EACH individual to maintain the culture and Our most significant triumph, to keep the language alive. We have survived 100 generations, but it only takes one to lose our identity. With that as the largest hurdle, the rest is easy.

Album: United Nations****