Region: Asia Minor
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Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Meli, Erythrae)
Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Mελί Eρυθραίας)
A little shorty, a short little man,
aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife
and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, wa...
Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid from Evripο
Μια κόρη από την Εύριπου
A maid from Evripo sought to set sail,
she sought to make passage.
She sought to make the passage to the far shore
and pai...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid from Vrontados (The Best-Woman Who Ended up a Bride)
Μια κόρη Βρονταδούσαινα
A maid from Vrontados sat weaving,
her loom in full song to the shuttle’s beat
when a bird flew down and perched on it.
It...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Couplets Love Song
Again They Entered in the Dance
Πάλι ν-εβγήκαν στο χορό
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Arabas (A Horse-Cart Is Passing By)
A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust,
pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust.
A horse-cart's pas...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Processional Tune | Table Song | Couplets 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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Ataris
Άταρης
I vowed to the Holy Virgin
not to sing again.
Ataris!
But for your sake
I will break the vow.
Four!
Once again four bla...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song, Love Song
Ballos from Alatsata
Αλατσατιανός μπάλος
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
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...
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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Carol Epiphany Carol, Ritual Song
Epiphany Carol (Asia Minor)
Σήμερα είναι των Φωτών
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 ...
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...
Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
Forty Stonemasons (Arta’s Bridge)
Σαράντα μαστορόπουλα - Της Άρτας το γεφύρι
A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers
were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta.
The whol...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Table Song Wedding Song
Golden Table, Silver Plates
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