Song types: Table Song
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Macedonia Thessaloniki, Sohos Table Song Love Song, Carnival Song
A Beautiful Lady
Ένα ωραίο χανουμάκι

Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Was Singing (The Wife Scorned)
Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε
A maid was singing in a high-walled palace.
The wind swept her voice out to sea
and every ship that heard it reefed its sai...

Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad), Immigration Song
A Maid Was Singing Longingly
A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace,
her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward,
...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Table Song | Couplets | Processional Tune Sad and Plaintive Song
At Dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...

Eastern Aegean Samothrace Table Song | Couplets Wedding Song
Barber, Your Razors
Μπερμπέρη μ' τα ξουράφια σου





Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table Song Heroic Song
Forty Brave Young Lads
Forty brave lads and an old man
took up arms and dressed for war.
Slinging their muskets, the mountains light up,
buckling...


Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Table Song Wedding Song
Golden Table, Silver Plates
Για δέστε τράπεζα χρυσή

Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song
Great Sorrow Was Expressed
Θρήνος μεγάλος έγινε
Great sorrow was expressed in Mesolonghi town;
for they are taking Markos to the church, my lads.
They’re taking Markos to ...


Thrace Evros, Paliouri Table Song Love Song
I See Ships A-Coming
Βλέπω καράβια πο ’ρχοντι
I see ships a-coming from Constantine’s City
with four hundred maids and sixty brave lads,
and mine in there amidst them si...


Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table Song Love Song
I Was Far Away, but Now I'm Back
Ξένος ήμαν κι ήρθα τώρα
I was far away,
but now I'm back from foreign lands
with diamonds and fresh-struck gold
and silver coins for you.
– What ...


Thrace Table Song Immigration Song
I Would I Were a Bird
Να 'μαν πουλί να πέταγα
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...

Thrace Table Song Immigration Song
I Would I Were a Bird
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...