Ray Hanania
Appearances
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
3. Into the Atlantic…
There was a big area where people could celebrate. A lot of dancing, a lot of music. A lot of these people would carry their ouds, you know, with them or their darbeckis, their little drum. And that's all you'd need in somebody to sing. And you could have 40 songs. you know, they'd be singing. I think one of the popular Lebanese, Baburi Raya means my boat has gone.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
3. Into the Atlantic…
That was a very popular song that they might have been singing ironically on the Titanic.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
3. Into the Atlantic…
It's a circular dance where you move with the music, you hold each other's shoulders or arms, you dance around in a circle. The Jews do it, the Arabs do it, they have different versions of it. The beat is a certain pattern with your feet when you're dancing and you're moving around and the circle is kind of turning. You know, what else are they going to do on the ship down in third class?