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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 ...
Peloponnese Fable Song (Ballad)
All the Castles I Have Seen (The Castle of the Beautiful Maid)
All the castles I have seen, not one have I not visited
vr' amán amán, not one have I not visited,
oh maid Frankish, maiden...
Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song
Along the Shore
I’m heading along the shore – say it, little ones
to find my love – say it like I do.
But I went and found her – say it, li...
Thessaly Magnesia, Keramidi Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Amidst Three Seas
Ανάμεσα τρεις θάλασσες
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic Song
Andronikos and the Princess
Ο Ανδρόνικος και η ρήγισσα
Famed Andronikos, who was born and raised in riches,
started school on the 6th of the month and could read by the 7th.
By t...
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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Table Song | Couplets | Processional Tune Sad and Plaintive Song
At Dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...
Epirus Klephtic Song
At Tserítsiana’s Well
At the well of Tserítsiana,
in the heart of the land, hail fine fellows,
there were Bulubasiades watching.
There were Bulu...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Ataris
Άταρης
I vowed to the Holy Virgin
not to sing again.
Ataris!
But for your sake
I will break the vow.
Four!
Once again four bla...
Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)
Θεια μου Νικολάκαινα
Auntie Nikolakena, you haven’t acted very wisely;
you silly bitch, you’ve sent your girl to gather sticks for kindling.
The...
Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)
Θεια μου Νικολάκαινα
Auntie Nikolakena, you haven’t acted very wisely;
you silly bitch, you’ve sent your girl to gather sticks for kindling.
The...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song, Love Song
Ballos from Alatsata
Αλατσατιανός μπάλος
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
