5 western songs that include hints of Arabic

No matter where you're from, if your favorite western singer includes your heritage in a song, you become ecstatic. It's like an inside joke between you, them and everyone else who knows the language.

A lot of songs have featured Arabic music, giving them that extra edge and flair. However, here are 5 songs that include Arabic words.

From 3:42 to 3:52, the lyrics are as follow:

"Easy come, easy go. Will you let me go? Bismillah! We will not let you go" and then it repeats.

"Bismillah" means in the name of God.

Here's another one by Queen. In live performances, Freddie Mercury would often sing the opening vocals of "Mustapha" in place of the introduction to "Bohemian Rhapsody."

He would sing this line: "Allah we'll pray for you" to "Mama, just killed a man..." The whole song is a compilation of English, Arabic and, some claim, Persian words. The Arabic words are: "Ibrahim," "Mustapha," "Allah" and "salaam aleikum." The first two are names, the third means God and the last one is a greeting meaning "peace be unto you."

From 0:53-1:03 the lyrics are:

"Be the object of devotion be the subject of Psalms. It's a rather touching notion all those prayers and those salaams."

"Salaams" is the Arabic word for prayers. So basically, they just used this word just to keep the rhyme going.

Being of Lebanese descent, it makes sense that she would use an entire arabic phrase. It is said after every chorus she sings in English, by what sounds like an Arab male choir.

She says it herself from 3:18 to 3:27

"Rab el sama'y fika raja'y feh 'ieniha arah hayati atei elyak min hada l'kawn arjok rabi labi neda'y"

Which directly translated means:

"God of sky, I pray to you In his eyes I see my life. I come to you from this universe please answer my request."

Karl Wolf is also of Lebanese descent, and there are really no English words that are as fitting as "Yalla Habibi" (let's go baby) to go with a song about running away together.