Category: Fable Song (Ballad)
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Epirus Polyphonic Fable Song (Ballad)
The Love of Yannos and Marigo
Yannos and Marigo went to the same school.
Yannos could read and write, Marigo could sing.
They loved each other, no one kn...
Thrace Evros, Karoti Fable Song (Ballad)
The Son of the Armenian
The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes,
to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale.
– My master, I...
Propontis Palatia Ritual Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
The Song of Saint George
Το τραγούδι του Αϊ-Γιώργη
A monster plagues our land curled up in a deep well.
We feed it poor townsfolk every morn and every night,
but when a day g...
Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Fable Song (Ballad)
Three Lords A-Sitting
Τρι άρχοντες καθόντανε
Three lords were enjoying a fine dinner
one boasting of his money, another of his wardrobe
and Mavrozis boasting of his wif...
Eastern Aegean Chios, Kalamoti Table Song Fable Song (Ballad)
With Child A-Mowing (The Maid and the Partridge)
Μια γκαστρωμένη θέριζε
A girl was mowing in a field of wheat
mowing with a child in her belly,
and as she baled she birthed
a golden eagle down o...