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Central Greece Love Song
Beam, Moon Dear
Come on shine, dear moon,
beam, moon dear, light the way to my love.
Beam high and low, for it's muddy and wet;
beam still...
Peloponnese Love Song
Come Out, My Sun, Come Out
Έβγα ήλιε μ' έβγα
Come out, my sun, come out,
come out, my sun, come out just a little.
Come out, my sun, come out just a little
so we can t...
Macedonia Couplets Love Song
D'You Hear the Water-Mills
Ακούς τους μύλους
D’you hear the water-mills that pound, and how the waters roar?
We two do love each other well, so let the people clamour.
...
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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you,
from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria,
to be of noble bi...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
Do Not Nurture Any Doubts
Υποψία να μην έχεις
Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you.
I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me.
You are a garden...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
Down at Aghia Marini
Down at Aghia Marini, at Virgin Mary's monastery
a twelve-year-old girl, joined the local nunnery.
She doesn't cross her fi...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
Down at Aghia Marini
Down at Aghia Marini, at Virgin Mary's monastery
a twelve-year-old girl, joined the local nunnery.
She doesn't cross her fi...
Peloponnese Love Song, Spring Song
Down in the Open Countryside
Κάτω στον κάμπο τον πλατύ
Down in the open countryside – why, down there, don’t you see?
down there, where all those flowers are blooming,
that’s whe...
Macedonia Love Song
During Five Whole Months I Wandered
Πέντε μήνες γκιζερούσα
During five whole months I wandered
in the rose garden, light of my two eyes, in the rose garden,
searching for a comely wo...
Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer
Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι
Early last summer
I set my sights on a little bird
But chase as I would, lust as I might,
She’d always take flight.
She s...
Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Farewell Holy One
Έχε γεια Παναγιά
In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla.
The loveliest of all the girls is she who's dressed in black.
It was nothi...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Fishermen, Have You Any Fish
– Hey fishermen, have you any fish,
any fish or squid or lobsters?
– We’ve got sardines all golden,
as golden as the maid ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...
Εφτά βδομάδες έκανα
For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you;
because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin.
I can...