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Central Greece Love Song
I Took the Road
I took the road
I walked for hours
I reflected on you, sat and wept
I passed by Mary’s,
Cried out, my head ached
Since I...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table Song Love Song
I Was Far Away, but Now I'm Back
Ξένος ήμαν κι ήρθα τώρα
I was far away,
but now I'm back from foreign lands
with diamonds and fresh-struck gold
and silver coins for you.
– What ...
Thessaly Love Song
I Went up High on Olympus
Βγήκα ψηλά στον Έλυμπο
I came out on high, priest’s daughter of mine,
I came out on high, high up on Olympus
and scanned the horizon, Father Dimit...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Love Song
I Will Climb a Mountain High
With golden adz and silver saw
I climb a mountain high,
up where the best trees grow.
To cut boughs of laurel and apple an...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song
I Will Sing Tonight
Απόψε θε να τραγουδώ
I will sing tonight with the singers,
my little duckling,
with the singers, save your love for me.
With the lads of Liviss...
Cyclades Sifnos Love Song
I'd Have Come Last Night
Ήθελα να ’ρθώ το βράδυ
I’d have come last night to see you,
amán, amán, amán, but I was caught out in a shower.
Then a heavy downpour soaked me,
...
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...
Ionian islands Corfu Couplets Love Song
If I Could Have Two Hearts
Ορεινός χορός - Ήθελα να 'χα δυο καρδιές
Peloponnese Love Song
If I Had an Bitter Orange
If I had an bitter orange, moré,
I’d throw it at the window opposite.
Sweet Rhodo1, I’d send that vase a-crashing.
I’d sma...
Peloponnese Love Song
If I Had an Bitter Orange
Να ’χα νεράντζι να ’ριχνα
If I had an bitter orange, moré,
I’d throw it at the window opposite.
Sweet Rhodo1, I’d send that vase a-crashing.
I’d s...
Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song
If I Had an Orchard
Περιβόλι ν-είχα η πάπια
If I had an orchard,
an orchard studded with bitter oranges.
Studded with bitter oranges,
bitter oranges all covered in bl...
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...
Macedonia Kozani, Aghia Paraskevi Saturday of Lazarus Carol, Love Song
Im Wearing a White Rose (A Lazarus Song)
Άσπρο τραντάφυλλο φορώ
I’m wearing a white rose I am, I dearly wish to dye it
and if I’m lucky with the dyes, how many hearts I’ll kindle.
I’ll ki...
Cyclades Paros Love Song
In a Fine Orchard
Μέσα σ’ ώριο περιβόλι
In a fine orchard, laurel and myrtle quarrel.
And myrtle, amàn-amàn, myrtle says to laurel…
And myrtle says to laurel, -You...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos Couplets Love Song
In Smyrna, in the Armenian Quarter
Στη Σμύρνη μες στην Αρμενιά