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Thrace Evros, Paliouri Table Song Fable Song (Ballad)
In Constantinople I Heard the News
Στην Πόλη ήμουν κι έμαθα
I was in the City and heard my fairest was to wed,
that she had exchanged vows with another.
Mounting my horse, I set off h...
Thrace Evros, Karoti Easter Song, Ritual Song
It’s Eastertime (Easter Dance)
Τώρα τις Πασχαλιόημιρις
It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one,
the greatest of all feasts,
you fair-haired ones, you ...
Thrace Acritic Song
Kostantis the Only Son
Μοναχογιός ο Κωσταντής
Kostantis the only son, young and cosseted,
his mother's only son, her precious darling.
She'd scrub him, comb his hair and...
Thrace Carol New Year's Carol, Ritual Song
Leaving the Noble Home (New Year Carol from Thrace)
Π' αυγινικό κι αν βγήκαμι
Thrace Evros, Karoti Easter Song, Ritual Song
Maria’ S Gone to Pick Some Lilac
Μαρία πάει για πασχαλιές
Maria’s gone to pick some lilac, a nightingale is singing,
she goes to gather lilac blossom in vineyards and in paddocks.
A...
Thrace Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May
Μάης
May's come,
May's come and spring,
summer’s come
when the perfumed roses bloom.
I’ve a white rose I want to dye
and if I...
Thrace Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May
Λεν ήρθι Μάης κι Άνοιξη
May's come,
May's come and spring,
summer’s come
when the perfumed roses bloom.
I've a white rose I want to dye
and if I...
Thrace Evros, Karoti Fable Song (Ballad)
One Easter Day, One Sunday (The Sinner)
Μια Πασχαλιά, μια Κυριακή
One Easter Day, one Sunday,
on a holy day, my little bird,
a mother was adorning her son
one Saturday from dawn to dusk,
...
Thrace Evros, Karoti Ritual Song, For Saint John of Kledon
Saint John
Αγιόγιαννης
Saint John’s herb
Saint John’s herb with its short black leaves.
Two herbs fell out over which smelled the finest.
Basil s...
Thrace Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Thrace) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Θράκη)
...
Today the sky is sullen black, the day itself is sullen,
today all folk are sorrowing, the mountains are in mourning,
...
Thrace Evros, Karoti Fable Song (Ballad)
The Son of the Armenian
The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes,
to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale.
– My master, I...