Category: Immigration Song
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Pontus Immigration Song, Wedding Song
A Cretan Ship
- A Cretan ship, nor large nor small,
just two and forty cubits long,
brought me to strange and unknown lands.
- O alien, ...
Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad), Immigration Song
A Maid Was Singing Longingly
A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace,
her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward,
...
Peloponnese Immigration Song
All Turn Their Gaze upon the Sun
All turn their gaze upon the sun that's on the point of setting,
and yet the girl who's sore at heart is looking out to seaw...
Epirus Polyphonic Immigration Song
Forgetful, I Am Truly Glad
Forgetful I am truly glad, but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
– Get up...
Epirus Polyphonic Immigration Song
Forgetful, I Am Truly Glad
Αλησμονώ και χαίρομαι
Forgetful I am truly glad but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
"Get up, ...
Epirus Polyphonic Immigration Song
Happy When I Forget, Sad When I Remember
Forgetful I am truly glad, but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
– Get up...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song, Immigration Song
I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height
I wish to climb, I wish to climb, to climb a mountain height
Roidou, sweet Roidou, dear, to breast a marble height.
Oh, gat...
Thrace Table Song Immigration Song
I Would I Were a Bird
Να 'μαν πουλί να πέταγα
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...
Thrace Table Song Immigration Song
I Would I Were a Bird
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...
Epirus Immigration Song
John Dear Your Handkerchif
Γιάννη μου το μαντίλι σου
Your kerchief, Yanni, dearest love, why is it soiled and dirty?
Come, Yanno, come, Yannaki dear,
come now my handsome fello...
Crete Cretan Kondylies Immigration Song
Kondylies
Κοντυλιές
Sweet bird flown far from home,
I’ve had no peace at all since we parted.
No Cretan far from home should die,
for the soil...
Central Greece Immigration Song
My Emigrated Bird
Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί (Η ξενιτιά)
My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,
...
Epirus Pogoni Immigration Song
My Emigrated Bird
My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,
...
Epirus Pogoni Immigration Song
My Heart-Sick Bird Flown Far From Home
Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί
My heart-sick bird flown far from home,
joy you bring those far-flung lands,
sadness all you leave behind.
What'll I send,...