Category: Love Song
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Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song, Wedding Song
My Love Is to Wed
Η αγάπη μου παντρεύεται
My love is to wed and marry my rival,
but it’s not that that pains me so,
it pains me that she's asked me to be their best ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Love Song
My old torments
Τα παλαιά μου βάσανα
My old torments have been and gone.
Now new ones with snake’s fangs have come along.
Mantalenia, Mantalenia1
Spare me a th...
Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Love Song, Spring Song
O April, April, Cool and Fresh
Απρίλ’ Aπρίλη μ’ δροσερέ
O April, April cool and fresh, dear George, a worthy scholar,
May month so finely decked with flowers, dear George, so finel...
Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Love Song
On my way to the mountains of Prussa
Πάγω στης Προύσας τα βουνά
On my way - oh aman, gel aman -
On my way to the mountains of Prussa,1
I found a cool brook bubbling.
I bent down to take ...
Eastern Aegean Samothrace Couplets Love Song
One Only Heart Is Not Enough (B)
Τί να την κάμω μια καρδιά (β)
Central Greece Love Song
Ploughed Garden of Mine
Περιβόλι μ’ οργωμένο
Orchard, my orchard, orchard ploughed
all pruned and daisy-strewed.
You’ve flower beds all around,
and marjoram in the gro...
Eastern Aegean Love Song
River, Dear River of Mine
Ποταμέ, τζάνεμ ποταμέ μου
River, dear river of mine,
river, my river, when you fill.
River, my river, when you fill
and crash, and crash and swell.
...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia
They sent me a carnation plant, Roumbaliá, Roumbaliá,
from the land of the Franks,
and the pot is made of marble, Roumbaliá...
Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia - Carnation
Who has seen a love-sick youth and a thief of love?
Roumbalia,1 carnation,
birds circle around you.
He wakes up with sighs...
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...