Spread out For Console: Don’t worry about the Days…An Eternal Song

Sudan Events – Magda Hassan

The conditions of war in Sudan imposed complicated psychological situations after displacement,refuge , and asylum, in which the Sudanese citizen needed (happiness) and consolation.

However, the lush garden of Sudanese song continued to carry a lot of consolation in loss, humiliation, travel, sadness, distance, and even war.

The masterpiece of the late great and unique poet Awad Jibril, that the singer Kamal Tarbas sings (Don’t care about the days), remained during the war period the most widely circulated and used song in the expression of consolation (encroaching conditions ), meaning that the difficult days that the Sudanese live are merely encroaching conditions don’t care about the days).

It is said that the poet Awad Jibril organized it when torrents and rains swept through Sudan – the flood – that demolished and invaded homes, including the poet’s house in the revolution in the city of Omdurman, and the poet spent the night until the morning, he, his wife, and the children, removing water from the house that was about to collapse.

Meanwhile, his wife blames him for repeatedly asking him to maintain the house, but he does not respond, and as a result, the house collapses before their eyes. Meanwhile, the words of the song came to him, first to console his wife and relieve her of the loss of the house that collapsed before her eyes, and he began with the words, addressing his wife.

(Don’t care) about the days.

Don’t worry about the days passing by

The nature of the world is like waves that bring and take away..

Don’t care about the days

Don’t care about people’s life conditions

You get used to changing every familiar font

The fate of the man in his life will be seen

In our world we encounter joy and fear…

Don’t worry about the days

The fate of a person opens the way just right now

He has an intense longing

To find his victory, beloved time

He is hard pressed…and wears the patience of Job…

And don’t care about the days..

The beauty of the world is in a smile of happiness and beauty

And in the joy of good thoughts and hopes

And in the morning sunrise in the smile of children

No matter how dark the days are, their light is…

And don’t care about the days

In last chats Awad Jibril told his story with the song, explaining that the singer Kamal Tarbas provided him with a great service when the Minister of Culture and Information at that time, Omar Haj Moussa, assigned him to sing in Cober Prison to entertain the prisoners.

When I sang to them, “You don’t care for the days.” All the prisoners interacted with it .

Those who cried with it cried, as it was a true comfort to them.

The minister asked Tarbas who wrote the words, and he told him that they were to compensate Jibril and the conditions of its departure. The minister asked to meet the poet

When he met him, he told him it was

A great song that needs a slight modification to address all the Sudanese people so that it suits the situations of all people by being (Don’t care about the days) instead of (Don’t care).

And it was

The song caused consolation and sympathy for the poet himself.

He said at the time that the minister handed him a donation from the Ministry of Social Affairs, which was sufficient to build a new house.

Now the song will appear again to console all those affected by the current war, and, Allah willing, the situations are getting worse.