Song types: Couplets
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Eastern Aegean Samothrace Couplets Love Song
One Only Heart Is Not Enough (B)
Τί να την κάμω μια καρδιά (β)
Central Greece Euboea Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Our Tráta All Tattered
Η τράτα μας η κουρελού
Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets
patched over and over and yet always torn.
Our old boat
needs sails,
Our ...
Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
Poor sad love
Παραπονιάρικό μου
Poor sad love who weeps all day,
What is it ails you, why won’t you say?
Sneak to the window and pretend
It’s your marjora...
Dodecanese Rhodes Couplets Immigration Song
Ribbon Interwined
I had a ribbon at the weaver’s and felt at the tailor’s,
and a loved one in a foreign land,
and him I’m waiting for,
oh, a...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia
They sent me a carnation plant, Roumbaliá, Roumbaliá,
from the land of the Franks,
and the pot is made of marble, Roumbaliá...
Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia - Carnation
Who has seen a love-sick youth and a thief of love?
Roumbalia,1 carnation,
birds circle around you.
He wakes up with sighs...
Central Greece Euboea, Kymi Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
Should You See a Vessel Pass
An’ should you see a vessel pass, passing the cape of Ochtoniá
oh take your little kerchief out and wave in signal to me.
S...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
So, I Decided I'd Become...
Αποφάσισα να γίνω
So, I decided I'd become a dome high on Aghiá Sophiá, amán, my love, amán,
Then Turkish girls and Greek ones, too, would com...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song, Local Song
Sokiani
Σωκιανή
Ah, aman, aman, Sokiani1,
Sokiani, my heart goes out to thee.
Ah, aman, aman, Menemen’,
Menemen’, thou art my heart’s desi...
