Songs οf Asia Minor
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At Dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...
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Ballos from Alatsata
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
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Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you,
from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria,
to be of noble bi...
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Now Is the Holy Time of Lent
Holy Week Lament
Now is the holy time of Lent, these days are holy days,
when services are held in church and priests are chanting hymns,
an...
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Roumbalia
They sent me a carnation plant, Roumbaliá, Roumbaliá,
from the land of the Franks,
and the pot is made of marble, Roumbaliá...
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The Lament of the Virgin (Reis-Dere)
Holy Week Lament
...
– O holy John, forerunner and baptizer of my son,
where is my much beloved son, your own beloved teacher?
– My lips wo...
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The Water of Life
Olmaz
The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.
Impossible, my ...
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The Widow
Widow, change your name, don't let them call you widow,
for you make my eyes weep night and day.
But why don't tell us
the...
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The Young Meliots
Two young Meliots got up to dance the syrtos,
they will ask us for songs and commendations.
Come, let us go over there and ...
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Yatzilariani
I brought you a Good Evening, give me a Good Night
I had no business here, I came only for you.
Come out that I may see
yo...
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Yio Mario
Net casting a-plenty, rigging and rigging again
And Nikolis was shouting: ‘One more rope’.
The knot of the net is off to se...
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Yioryitsa
I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa,
and nobody to know of it.
Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa,
strangers to...