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Macedonia Thessaloniki, Sohos Table Song Love Song, Carnival Song
A Beautiful Lady
Ένα ωραίο χανουμάκι
Crete Chania, Lakkoi Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Bidding Farewell
Μια κόρη συναπόβγανε
A maid was seeing her husband off to foreign parts
holding a candle out for him to see,
tankards of wine for him to drink.
...
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,
...
Epirus Klephtic Song
All the Captains' Women
All the captains’ women went
and bowed down before Ali Pasha, before the vezir,
but Leni, Bótsaris’ Leni, will not bow her ...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic Song
Andrónikos and His Black Steed
Άρκοντες τρων και πίνουσι
The nobles sit to eat and drink around a marble table,
a marble and a silver table, around a golden table,
and all do only ...
Crete Cretan Rizitiko Acritic Song
Charon and the Brave Men (The Death of Digenis)
Ο Χάροντας και οι αντρειωμένοι
My friends, what happened to all the brave men in the world?
They're not on the mountains and they're not in the passes.
Th...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic Song
Feasting Lords Eating and Drinking (Andronikos and His Steed)
Άρκοντες τρων και πίνουσι
Some lords are eating and drinking at a marble table,
a table of marble, silver and gold,
they are all eating and drinking ...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table Song Heroic Song
Forty Brave Young Lads
Forty brave lads and an old man
took up arms and dressed for war.
Slinging their muskets, the mountains light up,
buckling...
Macedonia Grevena, Sarakina Carol Saturday of Lazarus Carol, Ritual Song
Good Women Bearing Palms (Lazarus Saturday Carol)
Βάγιες μου, Βαγίτσες μου
Come, Holy Virgin, come along and see these women bearing palms,
good women bearing palms, good souls, bend down a little wa...
Crete Cretan Rizitiko Historical Song
Great Joy Across the Land
Great joy across the land, great joy in every village
and all in the best, the best of spirits
save Rhodes, poor ill-fated ...
Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song
Great Sorrow Was Expressed
Θρήνος μεγάλος έγινε
Great sorrow was expressed in Mesolonghi town;
for they are taking Markos to the church, my lads.
They’re taking Markos to ...