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Sporades Skiathos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Skiathos)
Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Σκιάθος)
A short little man had a beautiful wife.
The whole neighbourhood was jealous, and all the land
and a pasha, a pasha envied ...


Sporades Skiathos Ritual Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
Arta’s Bridge
Της Άρτας το γεφύρι
Down on the shore where land meets sea,
where the world ends,
they set to building a bridge,
but the bridge would not stan...

Sporades Skiathos Ritual Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
Arta’s Βridge
A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers
were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta.
The whole d...

Sporades Skiathos Carol Christmas Carol, Ritual Song
Christmas Carol (Skiathos)
Χριστούγεννα Πρωτούγεννα


Sporades Skiathos Love Song
I See Some Ships Approaching Port
Βλέπω καράβια κι έρχονται
I see some ships approaching port, how beautiful they seem to me,
ships that sail across the waters,
rending my faint heart...

Sporades Skiathos Love Song
I See Some Ships Approaching Port
I see some ships approaching port, how beautiful they seem to me,
ships that sail across the waters,
rending my faint heart...

Sporades Skyros Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
It's in May the Partridge Sings
Το Μάη λαλούν οι πέρδικες
It’s in May the partridge sings,
in May the nightingale bursts into song,
’tis in May the turtledove takes to the wing
and...

Sporades Skyros Processional Tune Love Song
January Violet
Βιολέτα του Γιονάρη
January violet, January violet,
my winter violet in bloom.
Who will drift off
and sleep in your shade
trialalalalala, who...

Sporades Skiathos Table Song Sad and Plaintive Song
O Black Dawn, Won't You Break
Δεν ξημερώνεις μαύρη αυγή
Won’t you break, black dawn
so I can find peace, my jewel,
so I can find peace?
My eyes are close to dim…
My eyes are clo...

Sporades Skiathos Easter Song, Ritual Song | Fable Song (Ballad)
Song of Saint George (Easter Dance)
Το τραγούδι του Aϊ-Γιώργη
O sainted George and honoured master, rider of the grey horse,
accoutred with a trusty sword and with a golden lance,
it is...

Sporades Skiathos Sea and Sailors Song
The Great North Wind Blew
The Great North Wind blew throughout the land
and all those, kalé, all those ships that heard him
made it safely into shore...

Sporades Skyros Couplets Love Song
The Night Endures for Thirteen Hours
Η νύχτα ώρες δεκατρείς
The night endures for thirteen hours, I sleep for merely three.
Throughout the hours that then remain I think of only you.
...

Sporades Skyros Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
The Sea Pounds Me
Η θάλασσα με δέρνει
The sea pounds me,
the sea pounds me, the waves lash me.
And a great fish…
And a great fish is feasting on me.
Alas, curl...


Sporades Skiathos Love Song
We Kissed Each Other in the Night
We kissed each other in the night, and who could see us then?
I’ll tell you, dear, the star saw us, and dawn saw us as well....

Sporades Skiathos Love Song
Whoever Saw a Tree of Green
Ποιος είδε πράσινο δεντρί
Whoever saw a tree of green,
with eyes of black and a blond sheen
and royal blue leaves to boot,
eyes black, eyebrows dark...

Sporades Skiathos Acritic Song
Young Kostantakis (The Evil Mother-In-Law)
Ο Κωσταντάκης ο μικρός
Young Kostantakis married young,
he married young and took a young wife,
and he was young, too, when he was called up to wa...

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