Region: Propontis
Propontis Nicomedea Children's Song
A Little Seedling
A little seedling
a seedling, a little seedling
sprouts forth and grows
to give us fruit and flowers.
A little water, jus...
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,
...
Propontis Peramos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Would Have Her Way
Κουράσιν εβουλήθηκε
A maid would go
would go a-strolling
and then go back again.
She called her neighbours together
yes, by Saint George
and...
Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Fable Song (Ballad)
A Prince Is to Be Wed (Evil In-Laws)
Αρχοντογιός παντρεύεται
A prince is to be wed
to a dark-eyed bride whose folk sought refuge here.
His bride-to-be’s from uprooted stock,
little re...
Propontis Roda Fable Song (Ballad)
As Long as the Shore (The Maid Slain by Her Brothers)
Όσο ’ναι μάκρος του γιαλού
As long as the shore,
as long as the shore and as wide as the sea,
that’s the span of the yarn
a maid had laid out in her ...
Propontis Marmara Carol Christmas Carol, Ritual Song
Christmas Carol (Propontis)
Χριστούγεννα Πρωτούγεννα
Propontis Mudania Fable Song (Ballad)
Dawn Glowed in the East
Ξημέρωσε η ανατολή
The sun rose in the East and day broke in the West,
the young man led his black mount to water.
All along the way, he calle...
Propontis Marmara Children's Song
Dili Dili
Dili, dili, dili, dili the lamp shone
as the maid embroidered her kerchief.
The rat went and nicked the wick
from the lamp...
Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer
Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι
Early last summer
I set my sights on a little bird
But chase as I would, lust as I might,
She’d always take flight.
She s...
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...
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...
Propontis Sea and Sailors Song
I Want to Savour All the Months
Οι γυναίκες των ναυτικών
I want to savour all the months, I want to know them all,
but oh , not March, I can’t abide the dreadful month of March.
Th...
Propontis Sea and Sailors Song
I Wish for All the Months in Turn
I wish for all the months in turn, await them all with longing,
but not, o not, the month of March when folks embark on trav...
Propontis Marmara Love Song
Karsilamas dance from Marmara
May this Bállos last, last until morning
that the girls may dance with their mates!
Ah, my barber boy,
come, embrace my ne...
Propontis Palatia Fable Song (Ballad)
On Saint George's Eve
Τ’ Αϊ-Γιωργιού τη βραδινή
On Saint George’s eve, as Saint George’s day was ending,
a princess was rigging a solid gold frigate
with sails of pure sil...
Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia - Carnation
Who has seen a love-sick youth and a thief of love?
Roumbalia,1 carnation,
birds circle around you.
He wakes up with sighs...
Propontis Marmara Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song
Selim
Song of fishermen
Our boat is rigged, élessa-yialéssa,
and goes to cast nets, elessa-yialessa.
Élli, yiamóli, yiássa, íssa, hó!
Vré háide, v...