Your dad is really bad in learning lyrics. He knows one now and that is “my beautiful doll” a very famous babies (mostly girls) iranian nursery rhythms. He sings it to you again and again until you fall asleep.

I keep on reading many different iranian songs (including by Farhad Mehrad, Mansoor Tehrani, Haydeh, Sattar, Marzyeh, Vigen and many more) to you. I have learnt some English nursery rhymes as well, and I read them to you.

I even read some revolutionary songs for you. I just want you to learn our history and get the feeling.

Our family never liked the Islamic revolution. Your father’s family had a totally different idea. Anyways, I like you to be familiar with all those revolutionary songs.

For the “my beautiful doll”, I have created a lyrics of my own. The original lyrics says “my beautiful doll, open your eyes, when night falls, go back to sleep again, now come play with me, play balls or skip ropes with me”.

I replaced it with:

“my beautiful doll (or Deeba kouchoulou) close your eyes, when it is morning again, smile at the world, now let’s go sleep calmly together, you will wake up again, you almond blossom”.