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Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
I'll jump from the battlements
Από τα μπεντένια πέφτω
I’ll jump from the battlements, I’ll end it all now
And my love shouts “for the love of God, catch him somehow”.
I didn't s...
Pontus Philosophical Song
If I Die, Bury Me
Αν αποθάνω, θάψον με
If I die, bury me on a tall mountain
so I can hear the shepherd’s whistle
and the pipe’s sweet sound,
so I can hear the sh...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes
Μαύρα μάτια κι αν θελήσω
If I want black eyes, I have them in hand:
They're my darling’s, my other half’s.
Douneme, doumanaki, douneme, vai, vai,
D...
Constantinople Couplets Love Song
In the workshops of Constantinople
Μέσ' της Πόλης τ' αργαστήρια
In the workshops of Constantinople,
In the gold and silver smiths’,
I first laid eyes on your likeness,
And my heart was y...
Asia Minor Love Song
Kanelóriza
Κανελόριζα
Down by the distance coast, down by the sandy shore
is the girl - is the girl I love.
The girl I love with hair so fair and...
Propontis Marmara Love Song
Karsilamas dance from Marmara
May this Bállos last, last until morning
that the girls may dance with their mates!
Ah, my barber boy,
come, embrace my ne...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)
Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης
Like the marble slabs that stand in St. Sophia
so well-matched and symmetrical are your eyebrows, eyes and hair.
I have dec...
Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Acritic Song
Marandon
Ο Μάραντον
Marandon has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed by...
Pontus Acritic Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
Marandon (The Evil Mother-In-Law)
Ο Μάραντον
Word came calling Marandon up to fight.
He forged horseshoes out of silver and nails out of gold
and shoed his horse in the...