Song types: Couplets
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Central Greece Attiki Couplets | Processional Tune Love Song, Local Song
A Walk in Sergiani
Σεργιάνι 'ναι στη Σεργιανή
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Couplets Love Song
Again They Entered in the Dance
Πάλι ν-εβγήκαν στο χορό
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
Ionian islands Kythira, Livadi Couplets Love Song
An Orange Joined the Dance
The beautiful orange
joined the dance once more,
and its one side smelt just as sweet as the other.
The beautiful cypress ...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Arabas (A Horse-Cart Is Passing By)
A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust,
pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust.
A horse-cart's pas...
Eastern Aegean Samothrace Couplets Love Song
As I Turn and See Your Angle Face
Όταν γυρίσω και το δω
Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Table Song | Couplets | Processional Tune Sad and Plaintive Song
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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Ataris
Άταρης
I vowed to the Holy Virgin
not to sing again.
Ataris!
But for your sake
I will break the vow.
Four!
Once again four bla...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song, Love Song
Ballos from Alatsata
Αλατσατιανός μπάλος
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
Eastern Aegean Samothrace Table Song | Couplets Wedding Song
Barber, Your Razors
Μπερμπέρη μ' τα ξουράφια σου
Cyclades Kimolos Couplets Wedding Song
Couplets for the Decoration of the Wedding Bed
Στολίσετε το νυφικό
Macedonia Couplets Love Song
D'You Hear the Water-Mills
Ακούς τους μύλους
D’you hear the water-mills that pound, and how the waters roar?
We two do love each other well, so let the people clamour.
...
Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Dear Mother, I Am Awfully Tired
Dear mother, I am awfully tired of gazing out to sea, to sea,
of gazing out to sea, to sea
of asking the postman if I’ve go...