***Check out our new album, now available at thepashtones.com !!*** Pashto song performed at University of Wisconsin's South Asia Summer Language Institute, All-Language Day, July 2010. Performed by Brian Tilley and Ted Watter. Based on version by Irfan Khan. Recorded by SASLI program staff. Lyrics (in both Pashto and English translation) I accept that there are many beautiful cities in the world But this surely surpasses them all Every place has its own beauty and fun But Peshawar is Peshawar! The name is as beautiful as the city itself When you enter the city it seems as soothing as if you are with your own beloved Here the old men are as beautiful as the children Here the women are as honorable as the young men Like Malakand, the women's necks are long Like Khyber, the men's hearts are wide open Every place has its own beauty and fun But Peshawar is Peshawar! When Pashtun women want to beautiful themselves They want a black shirt from Peshawar! When they want a gift from their beloved They want a few flowers from the city Fairies are the most beautiful creatures, But Peshawar, like a magician, increases even their beauty Every place has its own beauty and fun But Peshawar is Peshawar! Like seeing many flowers can't replace the sight of your beloved Seeing many cities can't replace the sight of Peshawar Every morning bears flowers And the evenings are incomparable Every place has its own beauty and fun But Peshawar is Peshawar! This is not only my city It is my
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