Song types: Couplets
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Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)
Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης
Like the marble slabs that stand in St. Sophia
so well-matched and symmetrical are your eyebrows, eyes and hair.
I have dec...
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...
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 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...
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...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
May Your Window Catch Fire
Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί
May your window catch fire and your door cave in
so I may get my hands
on your divine body.
You sit at your window with ot...
Eastern Aegean Couplets Love Song
My Aching Breast
Το πονεμένο στήθος μου
My aching breast may well pain me, but does not speak of it,
and though my lips may sing a song, my heart does weep within.
...
Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
My Heartless Love (Smyrna's Bálos)
Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι
My heartless love,
do you not feel for me
as you don your finery
and I lose myself for love of thee?
Come kiss me quick
...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Love Song
My old torments
Τα παλαιά μου βάσανα
My old torments have been and gone.
Now new ones with snake’s fangs have come along.
Mantalenia, Mantalenia1
Spare me a th...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Τζιβαέρι
Alas, my precious,
my fragrant flower now brings joy to a foreign land,
gently, gently and quietly.
Alack, 'twas I sent h...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Now a foreign land watches him grow -my precious one
my life's sweet-smelling blossom -silently and humbly.
God, I was the ...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Τζιβαέρι
Alas, my precious,
my fragrant flower now brings joy to a foreign land,
gently, gently and quietly.
Alack, 'twas I sent h...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Loutra Couplets Wedding Song, For the Groom
My Royal-Born Pearl Pod
Son-in-law, royal-born pearl pod,
God-fashioned pillar of the sun.
The groom was not born of mortal womb,
he’s the lemon t...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
O Christ Is Risen (Easter Dance)
Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου
Christ is risen, darling one, so, come, let’s be a-kissing,
go fetch a tendril from a vine and, come, let us be wedded.
See...