Region: Asia Minor
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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...
Asia Minor Love Song
My Curly Basil
Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου
My curly basil, when did you grow so
and spread your branches, little one,
and steal my wits away?
Oh curly basil, dear li...
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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Carol New Year's Carol, Pastoral Song
New Year Carol (Asia Minor)
Shepherds carol. Βασίλης βόσκει πρόβατα
Asia Minor Erythraea, Çeşme Carol New Year's Carol, Ritual Song
New Year Carol (Asia Minor)
Κάλαντα Πρωτοχρονιάς
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
Now Is the Holy Time of Lent (Holy Week Lament)
Τώρα ’ν’ αγιά Σαρακοστή
Now is the holy time of Lent, these days are holy days,
when services are held in church and priests are chanting hymns,
an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Fable Song (Ballad)
The Dead Brother
Του νεκρού αδελφού
Mother with the nine sons
aides pouli mou haides, and but one daughter,
you washed her hair, ki aman aman, you washed her h...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Baidiri, Asia Minor) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Mπαϊντίρι)
...
The Virgin heard the awful news, she swooned and fell,
they fetched some water in a crock; three tumblers of flower-wat...