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Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
May Your Window Catch Fire
Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί
May your window catch fire and your door cave in
so I may get my hands
on your divine body.
You sit at your window with ot...
Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
Poor sad love
Παραπονιάρικό μου
Poor sad love who weeps all day,
What is it ails you, why won’t you say?
Sneak to the window and pretend
It’s your marjora...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
So, I Decided I'd Become...
Αποφάσισα να γίνω
So, I decided I'd become a dome high on Aghiá Sophiá, amán, my love, amán,
Then Turkish girls and Greek ones, too, would com...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song, Local Song
Sokiani
Σωκιανή
Ah, aman, aman, Sokiani1,
Sokiani, my heart goes out to thee.
Ah, aman, aman, Menemen’,
Menemen’, thou art my heart’s desi...
Pontus Love Song, Pastoral Song
The Maid Climbed up to the Summer Pasture
Η κόρ’ εξέβεν σο παρχάρ
The maid climbed up to the summer pasture, my little bird,
to become a shepherdess, come, come I say!
to become a shepherde...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
The Water of Life (Olmaz)
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια
The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.
Impossible, my ...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Love Song
This Lovely Summer...
Φέτο το καλοκαιράκι
This lovely summer that is past,
this lovely summer that is past,
áde, this lovely summer that is past
I hunted for a litt...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Couplets Love Song, Sad and Plaintive Song
To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe
Τίνος να πω τον πόνο μου
To whom then shall I tell my woe, who will not sigh or groan?
Even the tight-lipped stone itself would shed a silent tear.
...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Charon's Song
Tricked by the Birds
Tricked I was, tricked by the birds,
tricked by the nightingales of spring.
They tricked me and told me I would never die.
...
Eastern Aegean Samothrace Processional Tune | Instrumental Wedding Song
Wedding Processional Tune From Samothrace
Πατινάδα γάμου Σαμοθράκης
Macedonia Couplets Love Song, Carnival Song
Why Did I Fall in Love With You? (Enteka (Eleven))
Τι 'θελα και σ' αγαπούσα
Why did I go and fall for you?
Why didn't I just get on with my life?
Now my head’s swimming
and knives have pierced my he...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Yioryitsa
I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa,
and nobody to know of it.
Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa,
strangers to...
Eponymous Composer
You Crazy Gypsy
Τρελέ τσιγγάνε. By Vasilis Tsitsanis
Crazy gypsy, where’ll you go,
all alone at dead of night?
Parting from you fills my heart
with a yearning that persists.
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