Category: Fable Song (Ballad)
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Pontus Acritic Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
Marandon (The Evil Mother-In-Law)
Ο Μάραντον
Word came calling Marandon up to fight.
He forged horseshoes out of silver and nails out of gold
and shoed his horse in the...
Crete Fable Song (Ballad)
Mavrianos and the King
Ο βασιλιάς και ο Μαυριανός
Mavrianos and the king were dining in a garden.
Having nought of note to discuss, the talk turned to
blonde girls and curly...
Epirus Fable Song (Ballad)
My Son, Why Dont You Go and Wash? (Necrolatric Dance of Easter)
Γιε μου γιατί δε λούζεσαι
– My son, why don’t you go and wash, why don’t you change your clothing?
Today, my child, is Easter Day, you’ll go and take ...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Fable Song (Ballad), Prison Song
No Father Had I (The Wine Bearer)
Εγώ είμαι ορφανό παιδί
No father had I, my mother was a widow.
My mother was a widow and sold me,
sold me into service to a good master.
My maste...
Propontis Palatia Fable Song (Ballad)
On Saint George's Eve
Τ’ Αϊ-Γιωργιού τη βραδινή
On Saint George’s eve, as Saint George’s day was ending,
a princess was rigging a solid gold frigate
with sails of pure sil...
Thrace Evros, Karoti Fable Song (Ballad)
One Easter Day, One Sunday (The Sinner)
Μια Πασχαλιά, μια Κυριακή
One Easter Day, one Sunday,
on a holy day, my little bird,
a mother was adorning her son
one Saturday from dawn to dusk,
...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Fable Song (Ballad), Sea and Sailors Song
Shes a Girl From Amorgos
She’s a girl from Amorgos, ribbon, o my ribbon!
she wants to go out to sea, braided, ribbon mine!
But how? She cannot go to...
Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Sea and Sailors Song
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea, oh, my heart, my heart,
so distant, so far away, my heart is fit to burst.
A vessel richly fit...
Sporades Skiathos Easter Song, Ritual Song | Fable Song (Ballad)
Song of Saint George (Easter Dance)
Το τραγούδι του Aϊ-Γιώργη
O sainted George and honoured master, rider of the grey horse,
accoutred with a trusty sword and with a golden lance,
it is...
Eastern Aegean Chios, Mesta Acritic Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
The Castle of the Beauty
Το κάστρο της Ωριάς
I've never seen a castle as fair as the Castle of the Beauty.
It has silver gates and silver keys,
I've never seen another ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Fable Song (Ballad)
The Dead Brother
Του νεκρού αδελφού
Mother with the nine sons
aides pouli mou haides, and but one daughter,
you washed her hair, ki aman aman, you washed her h...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Fable Song (Ballad)
The Dead Brother
Του νεκρού αδελφού
What a mother, vai aman aman, what a fine mother,
what a mother, ela giareni mou ela, what a fine mother
is she with, vai a...
Cyprus Fable Song (Ballad), Acritic Song
The Four Palikari
Τέσσερα τζιαι τέσσερα
Four and four make eight,
Four Palikari go to the wars.
On their way they are hungry
And they sit down to eat,
but they ...
Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well
Το γυάλινο πηγάδι
Aidès ki amàn amàn, have you heard the news?
Have you heard what happened down at the well of glass?
A wild beast appeared,...
Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well
Aidés ki amán amán, have you heard the news?
Have you heard what happened down at the well of glass?
Aidés ki amán amán, a ...
Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well
Το γυάλινο πηγάδι
Aidés ki amán amán, have you heard the news?
Have you heard what happened down at the well of glass?
A wild beast appeared,...