[Multilingual Monday Music] Txoria Txori

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I can't tell you how many times I've listened to this song. John Kelly and Maite Itoiz sing this song on a German talk show -- quite possibly the most famous Basque song outside of the Basque country's borders, originally written by J. A. Artze and originally sung by Mikel Laboa:

Hegoak ebaki banizkionIf I had cut its wingsnerea izango zenIt would have been mineez zuen aldegingoit wouldn't have flown awayBainan honelaBut thenez zen gehiago txoria izangoit would no longer have been a birdeta nik txoria nuen maiteand it was the bird that I loved