The song " Hele Mali ", a famous traditional performance of the "Rastak" group, which promotes Iranian folk music from all over the country, in fact, is the sea shanty of the fishermen and sailors in southern Iran who sing it while working rhythmically and uninterrupted.
Sailors in southern Iran sing this song in groups. One group says "Hele" and the second group answers: "Mali " which in general means "Good Job"!
Th Rastak Group
Song: Hele Mali ("Good Job"!)
(Iranian Folk Song from Bushehr)
Lyrics:
Your knees are not strong enough, for lack of Shei dates (a kind of date in Bushehr, southern Iran)
Anchor up and say Hele Mali
I'm going on a journey to be exemplary
My destinations are Somalia, Malabar, and Zanzibar.
Everybody! Hele Mali! Tobah! Mashallah!
Shabash (money paid for dancing at weddings)
Come, my friend!
let’s not be sad for tomorrow,
And value these days of life.
Tomorrow all of us will pass away
We’ll become like people from 7 thousand years ago!
Hele HelyUsa Helema HelyUsa (This part is mentioning the crew of the ship and admiring their blackness, as Heller is pointing to "black cardamom”. In old times, most sailors of the area were blackened by the intensity of sunlight, even if they were not black or dark originally.)
The ship docked at the Jeti (an ancient wharf in Bushehr)
All its crew are black and poor (again mentioning the people of southern Iran)
