Category: Love Song
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Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
Who Ever Saw a Tree of Green
Ποιός είδε πράσινο δεντρί
Who ever saw a tree of green,
with silver leaves to boot,
my little black-eyed girl,
eyes black, eyebrows dark as soot.
I...
Sporades Skiathos Love Song
Whoever Saw a Tree of Green
Ποιος είδε πράσινο δεντρί
Whoever saw a tree of green,
with eyes of black and a blond sheen
and royal blue leaves to boot,
eyes black, eyebrows dark...
Macedonia Couplets Love Song, Carnival Song
Why Did I Fall in Love With You? (Enteka (Eleven))
Τι 'θελα και σ' αγαπούσα
Why did I go and fall for you?
Why didn't I just get on with my life?
Now my head’s swimming
and knives have pierced my he...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
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...
Macedonia Table Song Love Song
Yesterday or the Day Before Yesterday I Passed by
Εψές προυψές επέρασα
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
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...
Love Song
You Dare to Speak Like That
Θα σπάσω κούπες
You dare to speak like that, I’ll smash the dishes
and all the glasses, damn your tart remarks!
Amán, amán, amán, I’m mad f...
Constantinople Table Song Love Song
You Have Entangled Me
You have entangled me, you have,
like a bee,
I am fed up being your slave
and also your ransomer, my little one.
You have...
Epirus Love Song
You, My Little Roses
Εσείς τριανταφυλλάκια μου
You, my little roses
you my little roses and you my herbs,
my tormentors…
’Twas you lulled me to sleep
when my love upped...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
You, Sweet Lass
Καλέ συ
Oh, those gentle, melting eyes -
amán, I’m done for, oh amán!
tell me where you found them, lass -
yes, you, sweet lass, ...
