Song of the Day: Tara Tiba/ Sar Oomad Zemestoon
“The winter has come to an end,
the spring has blossomed
The red flower of the sun has risen once again,
the night has escaped
The mountains are covered with tulips,
the tulips are awake
They are planting sunshine in the mountains…”
“Sar Oomad Zemestoon” (The Winter Has Come to an End) by Iranian singer Tara Tiba is a very old Armenian love song. The song was popularized during the 1979 Iranian revolution by the Fedayeen Khalgh (”The People’s Sacrifices”), a secular Marxist group. It was eventually appropriated by the revolution as a whole. Then many singers sang the song.