Song types: Couplets

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Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you, from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria, to be of noble bi...
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Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
Do Not Nurture Any Doubts
Υποψία να μην έχεις Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you. I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me. You are a garden...
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Crete Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
Easter Couplets (Easter Dance)
Πασχαλιάτικες μαντινάδες Because today is Easter Day, the world is making merry, all strangers, kith and kin, and friends embrace, kiss one another. ...
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Pontus Trabzon Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
Easter Couplets (Easter Dance)
Πασχαλιάτικα δίστιχα Easter has come round again, throw out the koukouràs1 and put a red egg laid this year upon the ikon stand2. Glad returns o...
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Dodecanese Kalymnos Couplets
Eri
Έρι - Μέρα δεν εξημέρωσε
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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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Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Farewell Holy One
Έχε γεια Παναγιά In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla. The loveliest of all the girls is she who's dressed in black. It was nothi...
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Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Fishermen, Have You Any Fish
– Hey fishermen, have you any fish, any fish or squid or lobsters? – We’ve got sardines all golden, as golden as the maid ...
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Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...
Εφτά βδομάδες έκανα For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you; because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin. I can...
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Thessaly Couplets Love Song
Foray
Γιούργια
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Propontis Couplets Love Song
Giannoula
Γιαννούλα Life is sweet, despite all its torments, And only a madman seeks death. Giannoula,1 Giannoula, there’s nothing you don’t kn...
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Macedonia Grevena, Deskati Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
God Speed You Now, O Easter Day
God speed you now, o Easter Day, may you be back again as you leave us may you find us, or else in better shape. All is wel...
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Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Health to You, O Holy One
Έχε γεια Παναγιά - Καροτσιέρης In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla. The loveliest of all the girls is she who’s dressed in black. It was nothi...
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Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets | Processional Tune Love Song
I Come and You Are Asleep
I come and you are asleep amid the white jasmine, wake up wherever you might live and be, my bushy lemon tree. My partridge...
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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...
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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...

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