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Thrace Evros, Soufli Lampoon, Children's Song
Down on the Barbary Plane
Down, moré, down on the Barbary plane,
the fish are getting married
down on the Barbary plane.
The ants, moré, the ants ar...
Central Greece Lampoon | Philosophical Song | Carnival Song
I Have Grown Old, Goddam It
Γέρασα, μωρέ παιδιά
'I have grown old, goddammit, friends, I have grown old and cannot now,
I have grown old and cannot now sing the songs I use...
Dodecanese Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
I Sold My Boat
In Saloniki I sold my boat
but when I got home to Chios, I didn’t have a groat.
Heave ho once, man the sails
Heave ho twic...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon
If you want to marry
Αν θέλεις για να παντρευτείς
If you want to marry, to take a wife
Come ask me do, I'll tell you who's good for you.
Don't take a white woman, no sack of...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Kaklamaniko
The dance is danced by Kaklamans, a pumpkin serves as drum1.
In Trikeri’s old neighbourhood the Kaklamans were dancing.
The...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Our Fishing-Boat a Battered Hulk
Our fishing-boat a battered hulk, we cobbled it together,
we patched it up a thousand times, it stayed a ragged sight.
Our ...
Central Greece Euboea Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Our Tráta All Tattered
Η τράτα μας η κουρελού
Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets
patched over and over and yet always torn.
Our old boat
needs sails,
Our ...
Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Lampoon, Children's Song
So Many Lies
We’ve told so many lies, a truth now let us tell,
we loaded forty pumpkins on a mouse’s tail.
The pumpkins full of water,
...
Thrace Lampoon, Carnival Song
Three Beardless Gents
Ήρθαν τρεις σπανοί απ’ την Πόλη
Three beardless gents down from the City,
five hairs between them, what a pity.
Then bré bré bré a fourth sailed in,
from ...
Thrace Lampoon, Carnival Song
Three Beardless Gents
Three beardless gents down from the City,
five hairs between them, what a pity.
Then bré bré bré a fourth sailed in,
from ...
Thrace Evros, Kyani Lampoon
When I Went down to the Butchers
When I went down, mistress mine,
to the butcher’s to buy meat,
he gave me, mistress mine,
a bone and a donkey head to eat....
Eastern Aegean Chios, Volissos Carnival Song, Lampoon
When You Want to Get Married Stranger
Ξένε σα θες να παντρευτείς