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Cyclades Naxos Carnival Song, Philosophical Song
It Is the Custom Every Year
Τούτες οι μέρες το 'χουνε
It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks
with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice.
S...
Cyclades Naxos Couplets Philosophical Song, Carnival Song
It Is the Custom Every Year
Τούτες οι μέρες το ’χουνε
It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks
with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice.
S...
Cyclades Kythnos, Dryopida Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May Is Come
May is come and bids me reap but for his sake
I shall not go and darken in the sun.
May, dear May with the flowers
and s...
Cyclades Naxos, Apeiranthos Carol New Year's Carol, Ritual Song | Wish Well
New Year Carol (Naxos)
Αρχιμηνιά κι αρχιχρονιά
Cyclades Naxos Carol Epiphany Carol, Ritual Song | Wish Well
Rise Lady to Adorn Yourself (Epiphany Carol from Naxos)
Σήκω κυρά να στολιστείς
Cyclades Paros Love Song, Wedding Song
The Boastful Partridge
A partridge fair bragged to all she met
that there was no hunter in the land,
no hunter in the land could bag her.
When th...
Cyclades Naxos, Komiaki Couplets Swing Song
The Swing
Μέσα στην κούνια κάθεται
The girl is sitting on the swing, no dove was ever prettier,
spreads and flaps her pure white wings, and fans the air around...
Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
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Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
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Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
Θάλασσα απ' όλα τα νερά
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
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