Sha3bulla, Bush and Al-Zaidi’s Shoes

Shaaban Abdel-Rahim Praises Al-Zaidi

 Shabulla’s new song You’re Useless mocks Bush and the infamous shoe incident, as Egypt’s infamous folk singer salutes the Arab world’s newest folk hero. It’s somehow strangely fitting….that the comedic singer who is both widely ridiculed and immensly popular should commemorate an incident which is both comical slap-stick and political dynamite.

Shaaban’s outrageous tackiness, artless lyrics,  nonsense rhymes, and political one-liners have been a recipe for success. As he says, he might be comedy material, but people still ask for him to sing at their weddings. Which means like what Muntader did, what Shaabullah sings is…what the people want.

خلاص مالكش لازمة .. يا بوش يا بن اللذينه

تستاهل ألف جزمة على اللي انت عملته فينا

الله وجه اليوم يا واطي ووشك إتفضح

وشافوك الناس مطاطي من جزمتين شبح

الجزمة كانت مفاجئة .. تمام زي الزيارة
والدنيا بحالها فرحت والناس فضلت سهارى

يا قلوب كتير حزينة قومي ياله اتبسمي

شوفي بوش وهو خايف والجزمة بتترمي

بصراحة ما قدرش أغشك وأقول زعلت عليك

ياريتها جت في وشك وخزقت عينيك

صدام اللي دبحته في أول يوم العيد

أهو ربك خد بتاره وفي نفس المواعيد

تحية عشان منتظر وتحية لجزمته

فرحنا في بوش أخيراً على آخر خدمته

بجزمتين في وشك هتسيب أمريكا على نارك

ويا عيني مش هتلحق يا بوش تاخد بتارك

في ناس كتير بسببك في الدنيا متبهدلة

بتقول يا ريتها كانت صاروخ أو قنبلة

العالم ده كله شافك وبالسعادة حس

والجزمة زي الكورة وداخلة في المقص

ليون شهيد وأكتر في الجنة فرحانين

ربك كبير وقادر يهد المتفرعنين

ضيعت شعوب كتيرة من هنا ومن هنا

بصراحة مش خسارة فيك جزمة معفنة

****

that’s it, you are now useless,

O Bush, O son of ****

you deserve a thousand shoes

for what you’ve done to us,

and I swear with today’s face

your face has been revealed,

and the people have seen you bowing

in the face of two flying shoes,

and the shoe was a surprise

exactly like the visit…

and the whole world was happy,

and people stayed up all night,

and countless hearts which are sad,

woke up and smiled

seeing Bush afraid,

from a the shoe being thrown!

to be honest I cannot lie to you

and say I felt sorry…

I wish it had hit you in the face,

and right between the eyes!

remember Saddam who you slaughtered

on the first day of Eid?

well, here’s your god taking revenge,

and around the same time!

a salute to Muntader, and a salute to his shoe,

Bush has gladdened us at last,

at the very end of his term!

with two shoes in your face,

you leave America on the heat,

and poor thing you won’t have time,

O Bush, to take your revenge!

there’s a lot of people who

because of you have suffered

who wished the shoe was a rocket

who wished the shoe was a bomb

and this whole world saw you

and felt happiness
as though the shoe was a football
shot into the corner of the goal

a million martyrs and more,
in heaven celebrated,

your god is great and able,
to tear down the pharaohized!

and you’ve brought loss to so many nations,
from here and from there,
that honestly, its not wasted on you…
you’re worth one filthy shoe!

* some liberties have been taken with the translation!

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