Bint el Shalabiya

This is an Arabic song popularized by the Lebanese singer Fairouz, often used by Western belly dancers, and sung in Turkish and Persian versions.  I've given two settings: fin C minor (Arabic pitch) for a C ocarina with a subhole to provide the low B, or in D minor (Turkish pitch) for any C ocarina with a good high F.

The accompaniment can be played on any instrument, but a lower-octave C ocarina would do it - it's a brief initial flourish, and then a single repeated bar that continues for the whole song.

As usually sung, there are two verses: you just repeat the whole thing, including the introduction.

Some notes are silent in the MIDIs due to a bug in BarFly; I can't see a way to fix this at the moment, but there's enough there to give you most of the tune.

Fairouz's version
Persian version
contemporary Turkish version

instrumental (me on clarinet, Shelley bellydancing)

MIDI (melody)

MIDI (accompaniment)

MIDI (both parts)

ABC:

X:0
T:Bint el Shalabiya
T:Kamtar Zan Shaneh

T:Böyle gelmiş böyle geçer
Z:Jack Campin, http://www.campin.me.uk
F:http://octunes.blogspot.com
G:Arabic song also sung in Turkey and Iran
M:2/4
L:1/16
Q:1/4=80
K:CMin
P:Intro (2nd instrument)
 CD| E2FG A2=Bc|d2=B2  z2ed  |c2=BA  GFED|
     C2GG C2G2 |C2GG   C2G2  |C2GG   C2 ||
P:Accompaniment vamp
   |:C2GG C2G2 |C2GG   C2G2 :|
P:Tune
|:GE|C2GG G2G2 |AGFA   G2GE  |C2G2   A2c2|
    =BAAG F2FA |c2A2   A2G2  |AGFE   GFED|
     C2DE FEED |DCC=B, CDEF  |G2A2   A2G2|
     AGFE GFED |C2DE   FEED  |DCC=B, C2 :|
  CD|E6    =B,C|D6       CD  |E6          
  DE|F6     FG |A3G    F2EF  |G3F    E2
  DE|F2E2 D2C2 |G6       FG  |A3G    F2  
  EF|G3F  E2DE |F2E2   D2=B,2|D4        ||
CDEF|C2GG G2G2 |AGFA   G2GE  |C2G2   A2c2|
    =BAAG F2FA |c2A2   A2G2  |AGFE   GFED|
     C2DE FEED |DCC=B, CDEF  |G2A2   A2G2|
     AGFE GFED |C2DE   FEED  |DCC=B, C2 |]