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Eastern Aegean Samothrace Couplets | Table Song Wedding Song
Barber, Your Razors
Μπερμπέρη μ' τα ξουράφια σου



Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Processional Tune Wedding Song
Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (1)
Έλα Χριστέ και Παναγιά (1)

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Wedding Song
Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2)
Έλα Χριστέ και Παναγιά (2)



Eastern Aegean Lemnos Acritic Song
By Command of the King (The Song of Porphyris)
Ο βασιλιάς διάταξε
The king commanded
every fair maid and every brave lad
in every vilayet to gather before him.
And when the fair maids and ...



Central Greece Attiki, Megara Ritual Song, Great Lent Song
Carnival Is Ended Now
Περάσαν οι Αποκριές
Why, Carnival is ended now, and Cheese-week’s past as well
and, gracious me, the Lenten fast, the Lenten fast’s with us.
Th...

Peloponnese Carol Christmas Carol, Wish Well | Ritual Song
Christmas Carol (Peloponnese)
Χριστούγεννα Πρωτούγεννα

Dodecanese Wedding Song
Come All You Birds
Ελάτε όλα τα πουλιά
Come all you birds to make dough, help O Virgin,
now gold has merged with pearl, help O Virgin.
I make a round loaf for the...






Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Dear Mother, I Am Awfully Tired
Dear mother, I am awfully tired of gazing out to sea, to sea,
of gazing out to sea, to sea
of asking the postman if I’ve go...

Thrace Acritic Song
Digenis Is Dying (The Death of Digenis)
Ο Διγενής ψυχομαχάει
Digenis is dying and the mountains are trembling,
and all the lords that heard it set out to visit him,
they set out, bring...