Vocals by Kelareh Kabiri, arrangement by Farya Faraji. This is an Iranian folk song said to hail from the Kurmanji Kurdish community of Khorasan, in Iran. Rashid Khan was a military man who served under Nasseredin Shah in the 19th century, and fought the Russian Empire on his orders; he was given the title Shojaodolleh, meaning roughly "the brave one." However, a truce was declared at some point in which a part of Iran in the Caucasus would be given over to the Russians. He was forced under royal pressure to sign the truce, and he died two days later as he was on the way back home; some say he was grief stricken and therefore passed away. Legend says this song arose in his native home in Khorasan, as a lament begun by his wife and his kin.

The arrangement is based on typical features of Iranian folk, using the tanbour, santour and kamancheh as main instruments, all playing the melody in Shur, a mode akin to the Western minor but with a microtonal second interval. The drums are the tombak, playing the typical triple metre rhythm found across all of Iran.

Lyrics in Khorasani Persian:
امروز دو روزه للو فردا سه روزه لو
رشید نیومد للو دلم می‌سوزه لو
وای وای رشید خان سردار کل قوچان

رفتی نگفتی للو یک یاری دارم لو
در شهر غربت للو دلداری دارم لو
وای وای رشید خان سردار کل قوچان

این رخت کِیَه للو رخت یارمه لو
می خوام بشورم للو با آب گلها لو
وای وای رشیدخان سردار کل قوچان

رخت حاکمه للو با چشم بشویم لو
گل بهارمه للو با چشم بشویم لو
وای وای رشید خان سردار کل قوچان

English translation of the lyrics:
Today is two days, tomorrow will be three,
Rashid has not come, my heart burns,
Oh, oh, Rashid Khan, captain of all Ghouchan.

You left, you did not think to yourself, "I have a lover,"
That I'll be leaving in this city, all alone,
Oh, oh, Rashid Khan, captain of all Ghouchan.

Whose clothes are these? These are my lovers'
I want to clean them with the water of flowers
Oh, oh, Rashid Khan, captain of all Ghouchan.

These are the clothes of the captain,
I will clean them with my eyes
Oh, oh, Rashid Khan, captain of all Ghouchan.

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