Category: Love Song
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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...
Central Greece Attiki Love Song
Sweet Perfumed Lemon
– Lemon so very sweet,
so sweet-smelling and plump from the tree.
Please don’t, kalé, don’t smell so fine,
for you have me...
Peloponnese Love Song
Sweet Slender Panagiota
– Panagióta kai amán, amán, amán,
Panagióta so slender and sweet,
can’t we in the courtyard meet.
– I can’t come down to m...
Cyprus Couplets Love Song
Tellyrkotissa
You are a bright star, bright and small amidst the seven planets,
the words you've said enslaved my heart.
They rushed and ...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Love Song
The Apple Trees Complaint
Το παράπονο της μηλιάς
In Konstantinos’ gardens a brook welled up,
because of which I planted an orchard
with apples and quinces, with laurels and...
Cyclades Paros Love Song, Wedding Song
The Boastful Partridge
A partridge fair bragged to all she met
that there was no hunter in the land,
no hunter in the land could bag her.
When th...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Love Song
The Eagle and the Partridge
Ο σταυραετός κι η πέρδικα
An eagle swooping over and over the mastic bushes
singing sad songs to the partridge
scratching in the earth below,
sorrow...
Pontus Love Song, Pastoral Song
The Maid Climbed up to the Summer Pasture
Η κόρ’ εξέβεν σο παρχάρ
The maid climbed up to the summer pasture, my little bird,
to become a shepherdess, come, come I say!
to become a shepherde...
Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
The May Month
Μάη μου με τα λούλουδα
The May month with its wealth of flowers and April with its dews,
I’ve got you on my mind again and didn’t sleep last night....
Sporades Skyros Couplets Love Song
The Night Endures for Thirteen Hours
Η νύχτα ώρες δεκατρείς
The night endures for thirteen hours, I sleep for merely three.
Throughout the hours that then remain I think of only you.
...
Sporades Skyros Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
The Sea Pounds Me
Η θάλασσα με δέρνει
The sea pounds me,
the sea pounds me, the waves lash me.
And a great fish…
And a great fish is feasting on me.
Alas, curl...
Macedonia Love Song
The Star and the Little Moon
The star -come now my treasure- the star and the little moon,
the star, my precious, and the moon, I’ll follow a narrow trai...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
The Water of Life (Olmaz)
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια
The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.
Impossible, my ...