Mayleen

A ballad that tells a story, in a Maghrebi voice. Long ago, in a time of many sorrows, the neighbours used to tell the tale of a girl called Mayleen. She would come out of a dark house into the middle of the alley, bright and happy and well dressed. But she was crying as she walked, and she said goodbye to every person she passed. The tale is told in an old storyteller's rhythm, and the singer keeps returning to its opening, as if the telling were the point.