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Thrace Love Song
When I Was a Lad
Αντά ’μαν παλικάρι
When I was a lad, twelve years of age
l walked on iron and turned it to water,
I walked on marble and turned it to dust.
T...
Dodecanese Immigration Song
When You Go off to Foreign Lands
When you go off to foreign lands, my love, don’t stay a year there,
because it’s more than I can bear, the pain of separatio...
Ionian islands Kefalonia Lampoon
Where To, Master Ant
– Where to, master ant, where to?
where go you burnt so black
with that grub hoe ’pon your back?
– I’m going across the wa...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Wedding Song
Who Was the Matchmaker
Ποιός ήταν ο προξενητής
Eastern Aegean Chios, Kalamoti Table Song Fable Song (Ballad)
With Child A-Mowing (The Maid and the Partridge)
Μια γκαστρωμένη θέριζε
A girl was mowing in a field of wheat
mowing with a child in her belly,
and as she baled she birthed
a golden eagle down o...
Dodecanese Karpathos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Yannaros Expired (Explicit)
Ο Γιάνναρος επόθανε
Yannaros –eh, boom-boom-boom– Yannaros expired.
Yannaros expired and willed, that son of Satan willed
they weren’t to bury ...
Dodecanese Karpathos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Yannaros Expired (Explicit)
Ο Γιάνναρος επόθανε
Yannaros –eh, boom-boom-boom– Yannaros expired.
Yannaros expired and willed, that son of Satan willed
they weren’t to bury ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Yatzilariani
I brought you a Good Evening, give me a Good Night
I had no business here, I came only for you.
Come out that I may see
yo...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Çeşme Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song
Yio Mario
Net casting a-plenty, rigging and rigging again
And Nikolis was shouting: ‘One more rope’.
The knot of the net is off to se...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Çeşme Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song
Yio Mario
Praise be to God, we’ve fish a-plenty, we’ re readying the nets again,
and Nikolis would shout at us, let’s have another rop...
Constantinople Table Song Love Song
You Have Entangled Me
You have entangled me, you have,
like a bee,
I am fed up being your slave
and also your ransomer, my little one.
You have...
Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
...
Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
Θάλασσα απ' όλα τα νερά
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
...
Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
...
Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song
You wear white
Άσπρα φορείς
You wear white and hold white and white is your dress
And white the flowers that swoon at your passing.
Dance, sweet bride,...
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...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Acritic Song
Young Kostantinos (The Evil Mother-In-Law)
Ο Κωσταντίνος ο μικρός
Young Kostantinos, young Konstantinos,
his mother had him young and betrothed him young
and he was young when he was called...
