Category: Love Song
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Macedonia Thessaloniki, Sohos Table Song Love Song, Carnival Song
A Beautiful Lady
Ένα ωραίο χανουμάκι
Macedonia Kavala, Nikisiani Love Song
A Blue Dove
Μια γαλάζια περιστέρα
A blue dove,
oh, a blue dove flew by.
Flying from mountain to mountain
she was searching for her mate.
My love so far awa...
Macedonia Love Song
A Noble Lady Summoned Me
A noble lady summoned me, a blue-eyed noble lady
she summoned me to go to her, her wealth in Kalamata lies
she summoned me ...
Dodecanese Rhodes Love Song, Wedding Song
A Partridge I Did Tame
Πέρτικαν εμέρωνα
A partridge I did tame, through April ‘til May came,
the tamer she became, the more she did complain.
All afire deep inside...
Central Greece Attiki Couplets | Processional Tune Love Song, Local Song
A Walk in Sergiani
Σεργιάνι 'ναι στη Σεργιανή
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Couplets Love Song
Again They Entered in the Dance
Πάλι ν-εβγήκαν στο χορό
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
Peloponnese Love Song
All the Birds, Two by Two
Όλα τα πουλάκια ζυγά-ζυγά
All the birds, amàn amàn,
the birds nest two by two,
all the birds two by two,
the swallow with his mate.
The lonesome ni...
Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song
Along the Shore
I’m heading along the shore – say it, little ones
to find my love – say it like I do.
But I went and found her – say it, li...
Ionian islands Kythira, Livadi Couplets Love Song
An Orange Joined the Dance
The beautiful orange
joined the dance once more,
and its one side smelt just as sweet as the other.
The beautiful cypress ...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Arabas (A Horse-Cart Is Passing By)
A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust,
pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust.
A horse-cart's pas...
Eastern Aegean Samothrace Couplets Love Song
As I Turn and See Your Angle Face
Όταν γυρίσω και το δω
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
At the Casement of the House
At the casement of the house, where the priest’s wife lives,
at the casement of her home two black eyebrows sit.
They gaze ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Ataris
Άταρης
I vowed to the Holy Virgin
not to sing again.
Ataris!
But for your sake
I will break the vow.
Four!
Once again four bla...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song, Love Song
Ballos from Alatsata
Αλατσατιανός μπάλος
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song
Beam, Dear Moon
Φώτα το φεγγαράκι μου
– Come on beam, dear moon,
shine, moon dear, and light the way to my love.
Beam high and low, for it’s muddy and wet;
beam...