#bai liping

[hi-jjo]

等你回家 (waiting for you to come home) - english translation

Lyrics by Bai Liping (白立平), composed by Qiao Jianjun (乔建军). The lyrics were first published in 2004, in Bai Liping's lyric/poetry collection 《深深眷恋的草原》 (the deeply nostalgic grassland). Several musicians composed music for these lyrics; this version was composed by Qiao Jianjun in 2007 and seems to be the most widely circulated version.

I've embedded performances by Dedema (德德玛) and Jamyang Dolma (འཇམ་དབྱངས་སྒྲོལ་མ).

煮好奶茶, 备好你骑过的骏马 在你离开的毡房前 等你回家 萨日朗开花, 孩子也已长高长大 在你离开的大路旁 等你回家

等你回家 盼你回家 先行你的大雁也飞回来了 等你回家 盼你回家 我知道你也把家乡牵挂

不管你走多远 草原永远都是你的家

The milk tea is brewed, your handsome horse is tended In front of the yurt you departed from, I wait for you to come home The saraana blooms, the child has grown up too Beside the road you departed by, I wait for you to come home

Waiting for you to come home, yearning for you to come home The wild geese that left ahead of you, they've flown back too Waiting for you to come home, yearning for you to come home I know that you miss your homeland too

No matter how far you've gone The grasslands will always be your home

t/n:

Saraana, сараана, 山丹, or Lilium pumilum are a species of lily native to Mongolia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Korea, and northern China. They have a fiery red color, are resistant to cold, and have become a symbol of beauty/passion/tenacity in grassland folk music.