From Lennie Clark's Web Site:

Mastom, Mastom
(Drunk, Drunk)

This page contains a translation into English of the lyrics to the Persian folk song "Mastom, Mastom". Also included is a transliteration of the Farsi lyrics into the Roman alphabet so you can sing along if you like.

Other spellings that have been used for this song title include "Mastoum Mastoum" or "Mastoom Mastoom".

Listen to MP3 Clips of This Song

	Performed by Desert Wind
	Sung by Sirocco
	Sung by Brothers of the Baladi
	Played on oud by John Bilezikjian

Lyrics

• Verse 1 refers to an unrequited or impossible love.
• In the chorus, some versions of this song use the word "dassom" instead of "shassom". "Dassom" means "my hand". [My thanks to Lida from the San Francisco Bay Area for this information.]

Where to Get Recordings of this Song

	Listen to Clip	Artist: Brothers of the Baladi CD Title: Eye On the World
	Listen to Clip	Artist: Desert Wind CD Title: Kali Ma
	Listen to Clip	Artist: Sirocco Album Title: Sirocco Volume 1 Sirocco P.O.Box 24 Capitola, CA 95010 U.S.A. Telephone: (+1) (831) 475-3591 Fax: (+1) (831) 475-3591 Email: hanya@unclemafufo.com Web Site: sirocco-music.com
	Listen to Clip	Artist: John Bilezikjian & Louis Sayegh Album Title: Dream of Scheherazade (Part of the medley titled "Antonia's Delight") Dantz Records - John Bilezikjian P.O. Box 2434 Laguna Hills, CA 92654-2434 U.S.A. Telephone: (+1) (949) 581-5664 Web Site: www.dantzrecords.com

Acknowledgements

About the Translator

Many thanks to Robyn Friend, who provided this translation. Robyn performs Persian classical dance, and is based in the Los Angeles, California area.

About the Source

This article originally appeared on Lennie Clark's web site, "Arabic Song Translations." Lennie created this web site in 2002 as a response to discussion on the Internet regarding incidents of dancers who performed inappropriate sensual dances to religious music. Lennie's web site resided on a free web hosting service known as Geocities. When the planned October 2009 closure of the Geocities web hosting service was announced, Lennie and Shira agreed to move the contents of Lennie's site to Shira.net. To explore all the articles and song translations that once appeared on Lennie's Geocities site, visit Lennie's portal page here on Shira.net.

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