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Peloponnese Love Song
If I Had an Bitter Orange
Να ’χα νεράντζι να ’ριχνα
If I had an bitter orange, moré,
I’d throw it at the window opposite.
Sweet Rhodo1, I’d send that vase a-crashing.
I’d s...


Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana
In Vervena, in Doliana
Στα Βέρβενα, στα Δολιανά και στον ωραίον τόπο







Constantinople Fable Song (Ballad)
Little Apple Tree Perched on the Brink
Μηλίτσα που ’σαι στο γκρεμό
Little apple tree perched there on the brink,
perched on the brink weighed down with apples,
how I want your apples but fea...

Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Little Ship, Where Are You Going
Little ship, where are you going shore to shore, come out so I can see you
You’ve cast a spell on me
and I am mad about you...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
Little White Bird A-Sitting
Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται
There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird,
sitting on a green branch.
A white bird sitting on a green branch
gro...


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...





Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Fable Song (Ballad), Prison Song
No Father Had I (The Wine Bearer)
Εγώ είμαι ορφανό παιδί
No father had I, my mother was a widow.
My mother was a widow and sold me,
sold me into service to a good master.
My maste...
