Region: Eastern Aegean
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Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Lampoon, Children's Song
So Many Lies
We’ve told so many lies, a truth now let us tell,
we loaded forty pumpkins on a mouse’s tail.
The pumpkins full of water,
...


Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Carol New Year's Carol, Ritual Song
St Basil Is Coming (Ikaria)
Άγιος Βασίλης έρκεται



Eastern Aegean Chios, Mesta Acritic Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
The Castle of the Beauty
Το κάστρο της Ωριάς
I've never seen a castle as fair as the Castle of the Beauty.
It has silver gates and silver keys,
I've never seen another ...

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Recitation Children's Song
The Evening Star Has Set
The evening star has set, the morning star arisen
but back home from school my boy still isn’t.
The evening star for compan...



Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Skoutaro Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Mytilene) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μυτιλήνη)
...
Obediently returning home, she laid the supper table
and patiently sat down to wait until her son should come back.
Sa...

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Phourni) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Φούρνοι Ικαρίας)
...
Let Martha and let Mary come and Lazarus’ mother
and John the Baptist’s sister too, all four of them together.
They to...

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Phourni) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Φούρνοι Ικαρίας)
...
– Be off with you, you gypsy scum, and may your hearth grow cold,
and may you lack a second shirt to clothe your wretch...




Eastern Aegean Samothrace Couplets Wedding Song
There She Comes, The Pretty Bride
Πάλ' ήρθει πάλι πρόβαλε


Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Couplets Swing Song
They Sat on the Swing
Πάνω στην κούνια κάτσανε

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Love Song
This Lovely Summer...
Φέτο το καλοκαιράκι
This lovely summer that is past,
this lovely summer that is past,
áde, this lovely summer that is past
I hunted for a litt...