Makes me proud of my Maltese heritage. My fahter is half Maltese and we always went to Malta regularly from here in England every year until covid hit. Hoping to go back there again at the end of March. Hearing this song just makes me wish for March 28th to hurry up and come so i can be on the plane to Malta again!
If anything shows the progress our island has made it is the old and new version of this song. Love both versions and both version represent the culture at the time
Din il-qarja għadni niftakarha għala kemm għaddew qrib is-sittin sena u dort nofs id-Dinja. Konna nidħku aħna w naqrawha. Konna nifirħu bil-ftit. Missieri w ommi kienu jafuha wkoll!
Lilna iz-Zwieten jghidulna li tfajna l-ġebel lill San Pawl. Kien hawn nies fiz-Zejtun 2000 sena ilu ? Xi snin ilu rajt dokumentarju fuq stazzjon tat-TV Sirjan fuq san Pawl maħdum mill-knisja Sirjana. Skond it-tradizzjoni Sirjana San Pawl, hekk kif sar nisrani, mar jippriedka f' naha ta' Damasku jisimha Zejtun kif ghadha jisimha hekk sallum, u n-nies tal post li kienu jafu x'mar jaghmel f'Damasku dahru għalih bil-gebel. Meta tqis li ħafna mill-kunjomijiet Maltin issibhom ukoll fost l-insara tal-vant u meta d-djalett Zejtuni ghandu l-Imala jiġifieri l-A tmil u ssir E fil-femminil kif hu d-djalett Sirjan, hi ħaga ċara li fil-medjuevu gew Malta numru idaqqas ta' nsara mil-vant nofsani wara li l-insara tilfu l-kruċjati.