Region: Central Greece
Back to: Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)
Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song
Kítsos' Mother
Kitsos’ mother sat on the river bank
scolding the river.
Scolding the river and pelting it with stones.
‘River flow less, ...
Central Greece Immigration Song
My Emigrated Bird
Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί (Η ξενιτιά)
My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,
...
Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Love Song, Spring Song
O April, April, Cool and Fresh
Απρίλ’ Aπρίλη μ’ δροσερέ
O April, April cool and fresh, dear George, a worthy scholar,
May month so finely decked with flowers, dear George, so finel...
Central Greece Euboea Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Our Tráta All Tattered
Η τράτα μας η κουρελού
Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets
patched over and over and yet always torn.
Our old boat
needs sails,
Our ...
Central Greece Love Song
Ploughed Garden of Mine
Περιβόλι μ’ οργωμένο
Orchard, my orchard, orchard ploughed
all pruned and daisy-strewed.
You’ve flower beds all around,
and marjoram in the gro...
Central Greece Lament, Local Event
River, Dry Gorge
Λαγκάδι ξερολάγκαδο
River, dry gorge, river
vái, as you come rushing down
your hair flows russet, maid.
River, I cannot remember
vái, ever ha...
