Im nin'alu

I was driving to work this morning; the student radio station was on, but I was thinking about various things. Suddenly ... a song came on. I realized I was listening to a language I know (although very obviously not in my dialect). After the song stopped I immediately pulled over and called the radio station to ask what it was. They told me it was by Cheb i Sabbah. The song is, of course, a version of "Im Nin'alu," a traditional Yemenite song based on a poem by a 17th-century poet Shalom Shabazi. (It begins with, "if the gates of the generous will close, the gates of heaven will not close"). 



It is often sung at weddings, and there is a famous version of it by Ofra Haza:



The original poem has stanzas in Hebrew and Arabic (Yemenite dialects of both), but the performances I am finding only have the Hebrew. Here's the text for those interested (Jewish Arabic is written in Hebrew letters). If this is of interest, I can try to translate the Hebrew parts later today, though I cannot do the Arabic, alas. 

There are additional mp3 recordings of this song on the Piyut website, but I do not see a way to link to individual songs.