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Thessaly Larissa, Megalo Monastiri Carol Holy Cross Veneration Day’s Rite, Ritual Song
Sweet Basil of the Holy Cross
Σταύρι σταύρι βότανε - Song sung by girls on Holy Cross Day
Sweet basil of the Holy Cross
and royal flower of Christ,
I strolled around your garden
and round your flower-beds.
I pic...
Central Greece Attiki Love Song
Sweet Perfumed Lemon
– Lemon so very sweet,
so sweet-smelling and plump from the tree.
Please don’t, kalé, don’t smell so fine,
for you have me...
Peloponnese Love Song
Sweet Slender Panagiota
– Panagióta kai amán, amán, amán,
Panagióta so slender and sweet,
can’t we in the courtyard meet.
– I can’t come down to m...
Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well
Το γυάλινο πηγάδι
Aidès ki amàn amàn, have you heard the news?
Have you heard what happened down at the well of glass?
A wild beast appeared,...
Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well
Aidés ki amán amán, have you heard the news?
Have you heard what happened down at the well of glass?
Aidés ki amán amán, a ...
Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well
Το γυάλινο πηγάδι
Aidés ki amán amán, have you heard the news?
Have you heard what happened down at the well of glass?
A wild beast appeared,...
Pontus Immigration Song, Wedding Song
The orphan maid is wed & Beloved stranger so far away
Τ' ορφανέσας το νυφέπαρμαν & Ξένε μ' ξενιτεμένε
They stay with the bride for two days, for three,
Her dress they give her and her veil, but no wedding crown.1
Beloved st...
Peloponnese Achaia, Plataniotisa Couplets Wedding Song
The Sky Is Shining Today
Σήμερα λάμπει ο ουρανός
Macedonia Immigration Song
The Wretched Mother Kneaded Dough
The wretched mother kneaded dough: her sailor son required rusks.
She kneaded dough, the wretched one, and wept and chanted ...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
There Are Hearts That Laugh
Είναι καρδιές όπου γελούν
There are hearts that laugh, there are hearts that weep;
there are hearts that ache, but don’t speak of pain.
Oh, come, my ...