Region: Peloponnese
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Peloponnese Historical Song
Rock of Monemvasiá
Rock, vai, rock of Monemvasiá
Rock of Monemvasiá and Athens’ citadel.
Hey Palamedi of Náfplion, open up and let me in.
So ...
Peloponnese Love Song
Sweet Slender Panagiota
– Panagióta kai amán, amán, amán,
Panagióta so slender and sweet,
can’t we in the courtyard meet.
– I can’t come down to m...
Peloponnese Historical Song
Tartar with a Chain
The Tartar’s hauling nine brothers bound,
nine brothers bound with a chain,
girl with the mischievous eyes, I weep for you....
Peloponnese Klephtic Song
The Arcadian Lass
Who saw, hail Arcadian lass,
who saw the girl from Arcadia,
dear Arcadian lass, decked out in klephtic garb?
Twelve years ...
Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Historical, Recent
The Captains of Trípoli
The captains of Trípoli, mana mou,
the captains of Trípoli
and the brave men of Moriá.
In Albania they lie, in Iván they r...
Peloponnese Achaia, Plataniotisa Couplets Wedding Song
The Sky Is Shining Today
Σήμερα λάμπει ο ουρανός
Peloponnese Klephtic Song
The Snow Shines White on the Mountain Tops
The snow, moré, the snow shines white
on the mountain tops
and the sun shines in the gullies.
That’s how, moré, that’s how...
Peloponnese Table Song Historical Song
Thirty Ships Prepared for Sea
Thirty ships were sailing towards Cape Malea and Hydra,
ten of them belonged to France and ten of them to England,
the othe...
Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song
Three Slender Girls
Three slender girls, three slender girls set out together,
they were all three, my friend, all three were dark-eyed girls.
...
Peloponnese Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
Today, My Dark-Eyed Beauty (Easter Dance)
Σήμερα Xριστός Aνέστη
Today, my dark-eyed beauty, today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!’
today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!, he’s taken up to heaven.
Today, my ...
Peloponnese Love Song, Wedding Song
Up Upon the Rose
Απάνω στην τριανταφυλλιά
The partridge built her nest
amàn amàn, high up upon the rose-bush
And the startled partridge started,
and the roses to th...
Peloponnese Love Song
Vassilo Kalamatiani
Βασίλω Καλαματιανή
Hey there, Vassílo, o lass from Kalamáta, ah...
Vasso, my dear Vassílo,
hey there, o lass from Mikrománi.
Oh tut, my dear ...