sadness in egyptian songs many of Egypt's songs in the 20th century, if not most of them, are sad songs. because all of them (not including songs about heart breaking or lost love) are songs about war losses or revolution losses. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Egypt has passed through 6 wars (1914 to 1973), 2 revolutions and countless political conflicts. that created many songs that talk about either parents (especially mothers ) or sons, for example, a song about a mother whose son was killed in the yom kippur war in 1973 starts as the mother says: my dear son, the light of my eyes people say proverbs about you everyone is congratulating me of course, I'm the mother of the hero another song is about a father who moans about his son, who was recruited forcibly by the government during world war 1 (1914) and the son who doesn't want to fight and wants to go home: my land, oh my land, I want to go back to my land my land, oh my land, the government took my son However, this kind of songs doesn't live long, they spread widely at the time of their occasions and then gradually disappear, they are only remembered when their occasions are remembered. unlike happy songs or songs about love.