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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....
Thrace Evros, Kyani Carnival Song
What Am I, Poor Wretch, to Do
Τι να κάνω ο έρημος
What am I, poor wretch, to do with the wife I’ve got?
In Jan’ry month and Feb’ry too she leads me off to harvest.
I reaped ...
Thrace Evros, Kyani Lampoon
When I Went down to the Butchers
When I went down, mistress mine,
to the butcher’s to buy meat,
he gave me, mistress mine,
a bone and a donkey head to eat....
Eastern Aegean Chios, Volissos Carnival Song, Lampoon
When You Want to Get Married Stranger
Ξένε σα θες να παντρευτείς
Central Greece Viotia, Akrefnio Carol Saturday of Lazarus Carol, Ritual Song
Where Are You Lazarus?
Πού ’σαι Λάζαρε
– Where are you, Lazarus?
We hear your voice no longer,
your mother and your sister search
both high and low to find you.
...
Central Greece Viotia, Akrefnio Carol Saturday of Lazarus Carol, Ritual Song
Where Are You, Lazarus? (Lazarus Saturday Carol)
Πού ’σαι Λάζαρε
– Where are you, Lazarus?
We hear your voice no longer,
your mother and your sister search
both high and low to find you.
...
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...
Thessaly Magnesia, Keramidi Immigration Song
Yorgalakis
In yonder machalá,1 amán,2 o Yorgalaki, yonder,
there’s running water running there – they call it silver water.
If any mot...
Love Song
You Dare to Speak Like That
Θα σπάσω κούπες
You dare to speak like that, I’ll smash the dishes
and all the glasses, damn your tart remarks!
Amán, amán, amán, I’m mad f...
Epirus Ioannina, Zagori Ritual Song, Spring Song
Zaphiris
Ζαφείρης - Sung by girls during a country game
Zaphiris, you’re a tubby lad, you’re short and roly-poly,
the door locks are all rusted up and weeds have choked the doorway...