Category: Immigration Song
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Epirus Pogoni Immigration Song
My Love-Bird Far Away from Home (My Emigrated Bird)
My love-bird far away from home, my love who’s broken-hearted,
- o, absent love of mine,
those foreign lands greet you with...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Τζιβαέρι
Alas, my precious,
my fragrant flower now brings joy to a foreign land,
gently, gently and quietly.
Alack, 'twas I sent h...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Τζιβαέρι
Alas, my precious,
my fragrant flower now brings joy to a foreign land,
gently, gently and quietly.
Alack, 'twas I sent h...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Now a foreign land watches him grow -my precious one
my life's sweet-smelling blossom -silently and humbly.
God, I was the ...
Dodecanese Rhodes Couplets Immigration Song
Ribbon Interwined
I had a ribbon at the weaver’s and felt at the tailor’s,
and a loved one in a foreign land,
and him I’m waiting for,
oh, a...
Dodecanese Karpathos Immigration Song
Syrmatiko
Don’t have me settle far from home, good fortune, I beseech you,
but if perchance that’s what you do, don’t visit me with il...
Epirus Immigration Song
The Lady Turtle-Dove
There in the sky that you fly, my lady turtle-dove,
when from these hights you're looking down,
did you by chance see my lo...
Pontus Immigration Song, Wedding Song
The orphan maid is wed & Beloved stranger so far away
Τ' ορφανέσας το νυφέπαρμαν & Ξένε μ' ξενιτεμένε
They stay with the bride for two days, for three,
Her dress they give her and her veil, but no wedding crown.1
Beloved st...
Pontus Inepolis Sea and Sailors Song, Immigration Song
The Ship Is My House
The ship is my house, the sea my courtyard
and the waves of the north wind, are my comfort.
A little stranger is dying at t...
Macedonia Immigration Song
The Wretched Mother Kneaded Dough
The wretched mother kneaded dough: her sailor son required rusks.
She kneaded dough, the wretched one, and wept and chanted ...
Epirus Immigration Song
Turtledove
High up upon your way, moré turtledove,
down low as you pass by, sweet beautiful turtledove,
might you have caught sight
o...
Thessaly Immigration Song
When You Go off Abroad, My Love
When you go off abroad, my love, go off to foreign places,
just see you don't remain six months, and don't you linger years ...
Dodecanese Immigration Song
When You Go off to Foreign Lands
When you go off to foreign lands, my love, don’t stay a year there,
because it’s more than I can bear, the pain of separatio...
Macedonia Immigration Song
White Doves O Mine, White Ring-Doves
White doves o’ mine, white ring-doves, black-hued birds o’ mine,
you fly so high above us, traversing the sky.
Come down, a...
Thessaly Magnesia, Keramidi Immigration Song
Yorgalakis
In yonder machalá,1 amán,2 o Yorgalaki, yonder,
there’s running water running there – they call it silver water.
If any mot...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Immigration Song
You Drive Me Mother out from Home
You drive me, mother, out from home, in truth though I’ll be going.
I’ll migrate with the little birds and with the long-win...
Crete Cretan Rizitiko Immigration Song
You Scold Me, Mother, Overmuch
You scold me, mother, overmuch, I want to go abroad now,
to go, good mother, overseas to go to foreign places.
You’ ll not ...