Source

Music library of Armenian Ethnomusicology department.

Instrumental adaptation of the song. It was written in 1915, shortly after the Genocide. An old man, feeling homesick and miserable is telling his grandson: “Let’s go home, my son.” He describes his homeland (Yerkir) as Paradise on Earth and worries that he will be in dept to Lord on the Last Judgment Day if he dies in a foreign land.