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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.
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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...
Thrace Acritic Song
Digenis Is Dying (The Death of Digenis)
Ο Διγενής ψυχομαχάει
Digenis is dying and the mountains are trembling,
and all the lords that heard it set out to visit him,
they set out, bring...
Dodecanese Kalymnos Couplets Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song
Exile Is the Greatest Hardship (Marouli)
Το Μαρούλι
Exile is the greatest hardship, the parting so upsetting
but oh, that greeting “Welcome home”, oh that Maroúli,1 is bliss.
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Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
Forty Five Lemon Trees
Σαράντα πέντε λεμονιές
Forty five lemon trees.
Forty five lemon trees rooted in the sand,
their leaves grow green, their lemons juicy.
Only my le...
Central Greece Carnival Song
He's Dead Is Master Meat
Πέθαν’ ο Κρέας
He’s dead, o mother dear, he’s dead, he’s dead is Master Meat,
he’s dead is Master Meat, he’s dead, and Master Cheese is dyi...
Epirus Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
How Do They Grind the Pepper (Explicit)
Πώς το τρίβουν το πιπέρι
How do they grind, good shepherdess, how do they grind the pepper,
how do they grind the pepper, those diabolic monks?
With...
Epirus Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
How Do They Grind the Pepper (Explicit)
Πώς το τρίβουν το πιπέρι
How do they grind, good shepherdess, how do they grind the pepper,
how do they grind the pepper, those diabolic monks?
With...
Propontis Couplets Love Song
I gave up all I had & What’s wrong, Theonitsa?
Όλα μου τα παράτησα & Τι έχεις Θεονίτσα
I gave up all I had, all the joys life gave me,
And now walk hand in hand with my humility.
It’s you that torments me, but...
Central Greece Carnival Song, Philosophical Song
I Have Grown Old, Goddam It
Γέρασα, μωρέ παιδιά
– I have grown old, goddammit, friends, I have grown old and cannot now,
I have grown old and cannot now sing the songs I us...
Central Greece
I Have Grown Old, Goddam It
Γέρασα, μωρέ παιδιά
'I have grown old, goddammit, friends, I have grown old and cannot now,
I have grown old and cannot now sing the songs I use...
Dodecanese Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
I Sold My Boat
In Saloniki I sold my boat
but when I got home to Chios, I didn’t have a groat.
Heave ho once, man the sails
Heave ho twic...
Eastern Aegean Chios Sea and Sailors Song
I Want to Sail Away
I would sail away I would, eri pali
in Attaleia’s waters yea, eri pali,
with the vessels from Psara,
who have sailors true...
Cyclades Sea and Sailors Song
I Went Aboard a Boat
Σε καινούργια βάρκα μπήκα
I went aboard a boat but newly built,
aboard a boat but newly built, and landed at Michalitsi.
I sought the seaman, stron...
Peloponnese Love Song
If I Had an Bitter Orange
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 sma...