Region: Asia Minor
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Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Wedding Song
How beautiful our bride
Όμορφη που ‘ν’ η νύφη μας
Our bride is beautiful and I've no need of words
Her sweet cheeks are red as roses.
I'm telling you so hear my words
Take ...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song
I Come and You Are Asleep
I come and you are asleep amid the white jasmine,
wake up wherever you might live and be, my bushy lemon tree.
My partridge...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song
I Will Sing Tonight
Απόψε θε να τραγουδώ
I will sing tonight with the singers,
my little duckling,
with the singers, save your love for me.
With the lads of Liviss...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
I'll jump from the battlements
Από τα μπεντένια πέφτω
I’ll jump from the battlements, I’ll end it all now
And my love shouts “for the love of God, catch him somehow”.
I didn't s...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes
Μαύρα μάτια κι αν θελήσω
If I want black eyes, I have them in hand:
They're my darling’s, my other half’s.
Douneme, doumanaki, douneme, vai, vai,
D...
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...
Asia Minor Love Song
Kanelóriza
Κανελόριζα
Down by the distance coast, down by the sandy shore
is the girl - is the girl I love.
The girl I love with hair so fair and...
Asia Minor Children's Song, Numerative Song
Let’s Say One
One, let’s say one
one is the nightingale, and sweetly does she sing.
Let’s say two,
two partridges on the threshing floor...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)
Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης
Like the marble slabs that stand in St. Sophia
so well-matched and symmetrical are your eyebrows, eyes and hair.
I have dec...
Asia Minor Lullaby
Lullaby
Νανούρισμα
Come, sleep, come take her to the gardens
and fill her bosom with flowers.
Sleep, fair day, bestarred night,
O May of bloo...
Asia Minor Lullaby
Lullaby
Slumber for I’ve made you gift of three lands fine and mighty
Smyrni with her blossoms, Chios with her many vessels
and Con...