Καλλιτεχνικός Σύλλογος Δημοτικής Μουσικής Δόμνα Σαμίου

Macedonia Kavala, Nikisiani Love Song

A Blue Dove

Μια γαλάζια περιστέρα A blue dove, oh, a blue dove flew by. Flying from mountain to mountain she was searching for her mate. My love so far awa...

Thessaly Wedding Song, For the Bride

A Boy from Syria

Άγουρος από Σερή

Macedonia Historical Song

A Brave Young Lad Set Out

A brave young lad set out for Macedonia, where Pavlos men was gathering, men in whom the spirit of Twenty One lived on. – ...

Cyclades Paros Fable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Maid Did Sing

Μια λυγερή τραγούδησε A fair maid did sing out in the moonlight, but the gentle wind took her song and swept it out to sea and every boat that h...

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Maid Did Sing

Κόρη ξανθή τραγούδησε A fair maid sang up upon a rope bridge, but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still. And the river spirit came to h...

Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Trikeriotissa

A fair Trikeriotissa, a comely Trikeri girl, is mistress of a silver loom that has an ivory heddle. As she spooled threads ...

Epirus Love Song

A Flower at Your Window

Βασιλικός θα γίνω

Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song

A Foreign Man in Foreign Lands

Ο ξένος μες στην ξενιτιά

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Historical Song

A Great Command

And the king did command and ’twas a great command: fleet and admiral were to quit the land. By the Lord’s command and the...

Pontus Lament

A Heavy Sigh

Σο έναν τ' αναστέναγμα μ'

Sporades Skiathos Fable Song (Ballad)

A Little Shorty (Skiathos)

Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Σκιάθος) A short little man had a beautiful wife. The whole neighbourhood was jealous, and all the land and a pasha, a pasha envied ...

Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad)

A Maid Was Singing (The Wife Scorned)

Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε A maid was singing in a high-walled palace. The wind swept her voice out to sea and every ship that heard it reefed its sai...

Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad), Immigration Song

A Maid Was Singing Longingly

A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace, her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward, ...

Propontis Peramos Fable Song (Ballad)

A Maid Would Have Her Way

Κουράσιν εβουλήθηκε A maid would go would go a-strolling and then go back again. She called her neighbours together yes, by Saint George and...

Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)

A Maid from Evripο

Μια κόρη από την Εύριπου A maid from Evripo sought to set sail, she sought to make passage. She sought to make the passage to the far shore and pai...

Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)

A Trader Made His Way

Πραματευτής κατέβαινε A trader made his way from Bulgar lands. He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules and sang and spoke the while he trek...

Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)

A Trader Made His Way

Πραματευτής κατέβαινε A trader made his way from Bulgar lands. He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules and sang and spoke the while he trek...

Central Greece Attiki Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song, Local Song

A Walk in Sergiani

Σεργιάνι 'ναι στη Σεργιανή

Cappadocia / Konya Anakou Acritic Song

A Widow Bore a Child (The Song of Porphyris)

Χήρα-ν παιδίν εγέννησε A widow bore a child and called him Prosfylis, she bore him behind bars, she suckled him in a prison. Aged one, he took up ...

Cappadocia / Konya Anakou Acritic Song

A Widow Bore a Child (The Song of Porfyris)

Χήρα παιδίν εγέννησε

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia

A Widow Sold Wine

Μια χήρα πούλαγε κρασί

Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Couplets Love Song

Again They Entered in the Dance

Πάλι ν-εβγήκαν στο χορό Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives, four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...

Dodecanese Kalymnos Couplets Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song

Aganda Yialessa

Αγάντα γιαλέσα

Central Greece Euboea, Gymno Easter Song, Sea and Sailors Song | Ritual Song

All Attend at Church (Easter Dance)

Όλοι πάνε στην εκκλησά All attend –for sake of Christ– all attend at church to exclaim that ‘Christ is Risen!’ and to hear the Word. As for me, th...

Peloponnese Immigration Song

All Turn Their Gaze upon the Sun

All turn their gaze upon the sun that's on the point of setting, and yet the girl who's sore at heart is looking out to seaw...

Peloponnese Love Song

All the Birds, Two by Two

Όλα τα πουλάκια ζυγά-ζυγά All the birds, amàn amàn, the birds nest two by two, all the birds two by two, the swallow with his mate. The lonesome ni...

Peloponnese Fable Song (Ballad)

All the Castles I Have Seen (The Castle of the Beautiful Maid)

All the castles I have seen, not one have I not visited vr' amán amán, not one have I not visited, oh maid Frankish, maiden...

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song

Aman Gel Aman

Αμάν γκελ αμάν

Thessaly Magnesia, Keramidi Historical Song, National Legends and Laments

Amidst Three Seas

Ανάμεσα τρεις θάλασσες

Crete Couplets Love Song

Amidst the Smells of May

Μες στου Μαγιού τις μυρωδιές

Dodecanese Patmos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

An Old Man Was Approaching (Explicit)

Ένας γέρος ηρκουντάνε An old man -yes, an old man, an old man was approaching, an old man was approaching, his prick was hanging down– it wasn’t ...

Central Greece Klephtic Song

Androútsos' Mother

Androutsos’ mother is glad, Androutsos’ mother is glad and Diakos’ proud For they have warriors and captains for sons who ...

Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic Song

Andrónikos and His Black Steed

Άρκοντες τρων και πίνουσι The nobles sit to eat and drink around a marble table, a marble and a silver table, around a golden table, and all do only ...

Cyclades Mykonos Lampoon

Ano Mera, a Fine Village

Άνω Μερά, καλό χωριό

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song

Arabas (A Horse-Cart Is Passing By)

A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust, pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust. A horse-cart's pas...

Dodecanese Rhodes Love Song

Archagellitikos

Αρχαγγελίτικος

Central Greece Love Song

Aristeides

Ο Αριστείδης

Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Processional Tune | Table Song | Couplets Sad and Plaintive Song

At Dawn

At dawn not once did I get up without sighing arise, my sun, come, talk to me without bending again on the pillow and cryin...

Central Greece Viotia, Avlida

At the Mountain of St. Theodoros

Στ' Άγιο Θοδώρου το βουνό

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song

Ataris

Άταρης I vowed to the Holy Virgin not to sing again. Ataris! But for your sake I will break the vow. Four! Once again four bla...

Cyclades Mykonos Instrumental

Balaristos Dance

Μπαλαριστός

Cyclades Instrumental

Balos Dance

Μπάλος

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets

Balos From Smyrna

Σμυρναίικος μπάλος (Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι)

Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song

Beam, Dear Moon

Φώτα το φεγγαράκι μου – Come on beam, dear moon, shine, moon dear, and light the way to my love. Beam high and low, for it’s muddy and wet; beam...

Central Greece Love Song

Beam, Moon Dear

Come on shine, dear moon, beam, moon dear, light the way to my love. Beam high and low, for it's muddy and wet; beam still...

Macedonia Instrumental

Blue Eyed Girl

Η γαλανή

Epirus Pogoni Love Song

By the Flowering Oleander

Στης πικροδάφνης τον ανθό

Pontus Kotiora Carol Christmas Carol, Ritual Song

Byzantine Christmas Carol (Pontus)

Άναρχος Θεός

Central Greece Attiki, Megara Ritual Song, Great Lent Song

Carnival Is Ended Now

Περάσαν οι Αποκριές Why, Carnival is ended now, and Cheese-week’s past as well and, gracious me, the Lenten fast, the Lenten fast’s with us. Th...

Central Greece Instrumental

Clouds Have Gathered on Parnassos

Συννέφιασε στον Παρνασσό

Dodecanese Wedding Song

Come All You Birds

Ελάτε όλα τα πουλιά Come all you birds to make dough, help O Virgin, now gold has merged with pearl, help O Virgin. I make a round loaf for the...

Dodecanese Sea and Sailors Song

Couplets About the Sea

The sea is humble and resigned, the wind disturbs its calm, a mother bears and rears her child, a stranger will embrace it. ...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos

Couplets of the Olive Tree

Δίστιχα για την ελιά

Thessaly Instrumental

Dailiana

Νταϊλιάνα

Cappadocia / Konya Konya, Sille Instrumental

Dance (With Wooden Spoons)

Χορός κουταλιών

Cyclades Naxos Couplets Philosophical Song, Carnival Song

Dance On, Dance On

Χορέψετε, χορέψετε

Ionian islands Corfu Instrumental

Dance from Sokraki

Σωκρακίτικος χορός

Ionian islands Corfu Instrumental

Dance of Corfu

Σπαρτιλιώτικος χορός

Central Greece

Dig My Grave Deep

Σκάψτε το μνήμα μου βαθιά

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song

Dimitroula

You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you, from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria, to be of noble bi...

Dodecanese Kalymnos Work Song | Sea and Sailors Song

Dirlanda

Ντιρλαντά

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song

Do Not Nurture Any Doubts

Υποψία να μην έχεις Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you. I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me. You are a garden...

Eastern Aegean Samothrace Love Song

Down There in the Island of Rhodes

Κάτω στη Ρόδο

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song

Down at Aghia Marini

Down at Aghia Marini, at Virgin Mary's monastery a twelve-year-old girl, joined the local nunnery. She doesn't cross her fi...

Cyclades Fable Song (Ballad)

Down on the Sandy Beach

Κάτω στο γιαλό

Macedonia Love Song

During Five Whole Months I Wandered

Πέντε μήνες γκιζερούσα During five whole months I wandered in the rose garden, light of my two eyes, in the rose garden, searching for a comely wo...

Propontis Mudania Love Song

Early last summer

Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι Early last summer I set my sights on a little bird But chase as I would, lust as I might, She’d always take flight. She s...

Eastern Aegean Samos, Karlovasi Carol Epiphany Carol, Wish Well

Epiphany Carol (Samos)

Ας τον (ε) καλαντρίσομε

Dodecanese Kalymnos Couplets

Eri

Έρι - Μέρα δεν εξημέρωσε

Cyclades Mykonos Fable Song (Ballad), Great Lent Song | Charon's Song

Evyenoula

Η Βγενούλα Young Evyenoula, comely lass, the lass who married early and boastfully was wont to say that Charon would not get her becau...

Thrace Evros, Neos Pyrgos Fable Song (Ballad), Charon's Song

Fair Evgenoula (Charon and the Maid)

Η Ευγενούλα η μοσχονιά Evgenoula, the fair maid beloved by all, went and boasted she had no fear of death, that she had houses tall and a sweethea...

Epirus Table Song Love Song, Pastoral Song

Farewell Beautiful Girls

Αφήνω γεια στις έμορφες

Constantinople Couplets Love Song

Farewell Holy One

Έχε γεια Παναγιά In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla. The loveliest of all the girls is she who's dressed in black. It was nothi...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song

Fishermen, Have You Any Fish

– Hey fishermen, have you any fish, any fish or squid or lobsters? – We’ve got sardines all golden, as golden as the maid ...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song

For a Whole Seven Weeks...

Εφτά βδομάδες έκανα For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you; because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin. I can...

Thessaly Couplets Love Song

Foray

Γιούργια

Epirus Polyphonic Immigration Song

Forgetful, I Am Truly Glad

Αλησμονώ και χαίρομαι Forgetful I am truly glad but mindful I am saddened; remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them. "Get up, ...

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia

Fortunate and Lucky

Καλόμοιρος καλότυχος

Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table Song Heroic Song

Forty Brave Young Lads

Forty brave lads and an old man took up arms and dressed for war. Slinging their muskets, the mountains light up, buckling...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song

Forty Five Lemon Trees

Σαράντα πέντε λεμονιές Forty five lemon trees. Forty five lemon trees rooted in the sand, their leaves grow green, their lemons juicy. Only my le...

Klephtic Song

Forty Klephts Are We

Forty klephts are we, forty brave young lads and we swore an oath upon the Cross. And we swore an oath upon the Cross and ...

Cyprus Fable Song (Ballad)

Four and Four

Τέσσερα τσαι τέσσερα Four and four makes eight, four young lads setting out to war. Feeling hungry on their way, they slopped to eat and drink....

Cyclades Naxos Couplets Love Song

From Your Sweet Eyes

Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια

Epirus Instrumental

Fyssouni Dance

Φυσούνι

Macedonia Instrumental

Gaida

Γκάιντα

Macedonia Instrumental

Gaida

Γκάιντα

Propontis Couplets Love Song

Giannoula

Γιαννούλα Life is sweet, despite all its torments, And only a madman seeks death. Giannoula,1 Giannoula, there’s nothing you don’t kn...

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Table Song Wedding Song

Golden Table, Silver Plates

Για δέστε τράπεζα χρυσή

Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song

Great Sorrow Was Expressed

Θρήνος μεγάλος έγινε Great sorrow was expressed in Mesolonghi town; for they are taking Markos to the church, my lads. They’re taking Markos to ...

Central Greece Carnival Song

He's Dead Is Master Meat

Πέθαν’ ο Κρέας He’s dead, o mother dear, he’s dead, he’s dead is Master Meat, he’s dead is Master Meat, he’s dead, and Master Cheese is dyi...

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana

He's Not Good for You, Vergo

Τί τον(ε) ζηλεύεις Βέργω μ'

Constantinople Couplets Love Song

Health to You, O Holy One

Έχε γεια Παναγιά - Καροτσιέρης In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla. The loveliest of all the girls is she who’s dressed in black. It was nothi...

Central Greece Attiki

Here Come Maidens from Psatha

Here come maidens from Psatha, I knew not who they were, I am heart-broken Come on maiden mine, Stand here in the shade H...

Thessaly Larissa, Drymos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Here They Call the Fanny Yiota (Explicit)

Το μουνί το λένε Γιώτα Here, my friend, they call the fanny, here they call the fanny Yióta, here hey call the fanny Yióta and the pecker Panayióta...

Epirus Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

How Do They Grind the Pepper (Explicit)

Πώς το τρίβουν το πιπέρι How do they grind, good shepherdess, how do they grind the pepper, how do they grind the pepper, those diabolic monks? With...

Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song

How Fortunate the Mountains

Καλότυχα που 'ν' τα βουνά

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Wedding Song

How beautiful our bride

Όμορφη που ‘ν’ η νύφη μας Our bride is beautiful and I've no need of words Her sweet cheeks are red as roses. I'm telling you so hear my words Take ...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Wedding Song, For the Bride

I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood

Αφήνω γεια στη γειτονιά

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Wedding Song

I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood

Αφήνω γεια στη γειτονιά

Cyclades Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song

I Come and Go to See Your Eyes

Περνοδιαβαίνω

Eastern Aegean Samothrace Love Song

I Have Spent a Life Awaiting You

Ήσουν μικρή σ' απάντεχα

Central Greece Love Song

I Heard From My Old Love

Εγώ 'βρα κι αρραβώνιασα

Thrace Evros, Paliouri Table Song Love Song

I See Ships A-Coming

Βλέπω καράβια πο ’ρχοντι I see ships a-coming from Constantine’s City with four hundred maids and sixty brave lads, and mine in there amidst them si...

Sporades Skiathos Love Song

I See Some Ships Approaching Port

I see some ships approaching port, how beautiful they seem to me, ships that sail across the waters, rending my faint heart...

Pontus

I Split the Mountains on the Way

Ρασία σκίζω κ' έρχομαι

Central Greece Love Song

I Told You, I Charged You

Σ' το 'πα και σ' το παρήγγειλα

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...

Pontus Table Song Wedding Song

I Wait for You

Περ'μένω σε

Eastern Aegean Chios Sea and Sailors Song

I Want to Sail Away

I would sail away I would, eri pali in Attaleia’s waters yea, eri pali, with the vessels from Psara, who have sailors true...

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 ...

Cyclades Sea and Sailors Song

I Went Aboard a Boat

Σε καινούργια βάρκα μπήκα I went aboard a boat but newly built, aboard a boat but newly built, and landed at Michalitsi. I sought the seaman, stron...

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...

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...

Propontis Sea and Sailors Song

I Wish for All the Months in Turn

I wish for all the months in turn, await them all with longing, but not, o not, the month of March when folks embark on trav...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song, Immigration Song

I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height

I wish to climb, I wish to climb, to climb a mountain height Roidou, sweet Roidou, dear, to breast a marble height. Oh, gat...

Thrace Table Song Immigration Song

I Would I Were a Bird

I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops, and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries that I...

Thrace Table Song Immigration Song

I Would I Were a Bird

Να 'μαν πουλί να πέταγα I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops, and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries that I...

Propontis Couplets Love Song

I gave up all I had & What’s wrong, Theonitsa?

Όλα μου τα παράτησα & Τι έχεις Θεονίτσα I gave up all I had, all the joys life gave me,  And now walk hand in hand with my humility. It’s you that torments me, but...

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, ...

Cyclades Naxos Couplets Love Song

I'll Climb the Mountains

Θα πάρω βόλτα τα βουνά

Central Greece Carnival Song

If I Could Be Upon the Shore (Explicit)

Να ’μουν νύχτα στο γιαλό If I could be, if I could be, could be upon the shore at night to light a lamp, to light a lamp, to light a lamp so I might ...

Central Greece Carnival Song

If I Could Be Upon the Shore (Explicit)

Να 'μουν νύχτα στο γιαλό If I could be, if I could be, could be upon the shore at night to light a lamp, to light a lamp, to light a lamp so I might ...

Ionian islands Corfu Couplets Love Song

If I Could Have Two Hearts

Ορεινός χορός - Ήθελα να 'χα δυο καρδιές

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...

Peloponnese

If Youth Came Round Again

Να 'σαν τα νιάτα δυο φορές

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon

If you want to marry

Αν θέλεις για να παντρευτείς If you want to marry, to take a wife Come ask me do, I'll tell you who's good for you. Don't take a white woman, no sack of...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos Couplets Love Song

In Smyrna, in the Armenian Quarter

Στη Σμύρνη μες στην Αρμενιά

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana

In Vervena, in Doliana

Στα Βέρβενα, στα Δολιανά και στον ωραίον τόπο

Peloponnese Table Song Historical Song

In the Heart of Kalávryta

In the heart of Kalávryta, beneath the great plane tree old Zaimis sat, three old men a-sitting. There were three old men t...

Central Greece

In the Vineyard, on a Stump

In the vineyard, on a stump A pretty bird is singing. In the vineyard, on a pear-tree A white bird is singing. In the vin...

Thessaly

Into the Vineyard

Μπαίνω μες στ' αμπέλι

Thessaly

Into the Vineyard

Μπαίνω μες στ' αμπέλι

Dodecanese Rhodes Instrumental

Isios Dance from Rhodes

Ροδίτικος ίσιος χορός

Dodecanese Leros Instrumental

Issios Dance From Leros

Λέρικος ίσιος χορός

Cyclades Naxos Couplets Philosophical Song, Carnival Song

It Is the Custom Every Year

Τούτες οι μέρες το ’χουνε It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice. S...

Cyclades Naxos Carnival Song, Philosophical Song

It Is the Custom Every Year

Τούτες οι μέρες το 'χουνε It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice. S...

Macedonia Instrumental

It's Hard Being Far from Home

Βαριά τα ξένα

Sporades Skyros Couplets Love Song, Spring Song

It's in May the Partridge Sings

Το Μάη λαλούν οι πέρδικες It’s in May the partridge sings, in May the nightingale bursts into song, ’tis in May the turtledove takes to the wing and...

Epirus Love Song

I’ll Be the Basil by Your Window

Βασιλικός θα γίνω I’ll be the basil by your window, I’ll stay unwed for your sake. Come, come to me and I’ll fill you with glee. Come to th...

Macedonia Couplets Love Song

I’ll Jump From the Railings

Απ' τα κάγκελα θα πέσω I’ll jump from the railings, I’ll fall to my death and my love calls out “For the love of God, catch him!” You’re white as ...

Epirus Immigration Song

John Dear Your Handkerchif

Γιάννη μου το μαντίλι σου Your kerchief, Yanni, dearest love, why is it soiled and dirty? Come, Yanno, come, Yannaki dear, come now my handsome fello...

Dodecanese Kastellorizo Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song

Just Like Easter Sunday

Σαν τη Mεγάλην Πασχαλιά How wonderful if every day were just like Easter Sunday, when girls put on their finery and dress as gentlefolk do. Come on...

Central Greece Hydra Instrumental

Kalafatikos Syrtos Dance

Καλαφάτικος συρτός

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song

Kanaria

Τα κανάρια

Asia Minor Love Song

Kanelóriza

Κανελόριζα Down by the distance coast, down by the sandy shore is the girl - is the girl I love. The girl I love with hair so fair and...

Asia Minor Improvisation | Instrumental

Kanun Solo

Κανονάκι

Thessaly Love Song

Karagouna From Palamas

Καραγκούνα Παλαμιώτικη

Macedonia Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

Αντικρυστός χορός

Dodecanese Rhodes Couplets

Kato Choros

Κάτω χορός

Epirus Klephtic Song

Katsantonis

Κατσαντώνης Hail, high mountains and you, low hills, hail dear Katsantónis and you, low-lying hills, my captain hail. And you Tzoumérk...

Crete Cretan Kondylies Immigration Song

Kondylies

Κοντυλιές Sweet bird flown far from home, I’ve had no peace at all since we parted. No Cretan far from home should die, for the soil...

Cappadocia / Konya Instrumental

Koniali

Κόνιαλι

Epirus Acritic Song

Kostantis and Kostantas (The Death of Digenis)

Ο Κωσταντής κι ο Κωσταντάς Oh, Kostantis, oh, Kostantas, oh, young Kostantinos, for three long years wandered looking for a good wife to wed, [to find...

Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song

Kítsos' Mother

Kitsos’ mother sat on the river bank scolding the river. Scolding the river and pelting it with stones. ‘River flow less, ...

Central Greece

Lambro

Η Λάμπρω

Epirus Instrumental

Lament

Μοιρολόι

Dodecanese Love Song

Lass, Working the Loom

Κόρη που 'φαίνεις τ' αργαλειό

Constantinople Love Song

Last Summer

Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι Last summer, I set my heart on a little bird. But though I chased her, catch her I could not. I set my lime twig trap, m...

Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song, Wedding Song

Let My Eyes Go See

Ας πα να δουν τα μάτια μου Let my eyes go see for themselves how my love spends her days, lest she’s found another and fallen in love and left me. W...

Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song, Wedding Song

Let My Eyes Go See

Ας πα να δουν τα μάτια μου Let my eyes go see for themselves how my love spends her days, lest she’s found another and fallen in love and left me. W...

Pontus Love Song

Let Us Go Gather Chestnuts

Πάμε κόρ' σα κάστανα

Macedonia Love Song

Little Bird in a Cage

A little bird I had in a cage, by Saint Paraskevi a sweet-smelling creature with the sweetest nature. I fed her sugar – for...

Thessaly Love Song

Little Boat

Βαρκούλα

Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song

Little Ship, Where Are You Going

Little ship, where are you going shore to shore, come out so I can see you You’ve cast a spell on me and I am mad about you...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song

Little White Bird A-Sitting

Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird, sitting on a green branch. A white bird sitting on a green branch gro...

Cyclades Couplets Love Song

Lovely Is the Dawn

Ωραία που ’ναι την αυγή

Asia Minor Lullaby

Lullaby

Slumber for I’ve made you gift of three lands fine and mighty Smyrni with her blossoms, Chios with her many vessels and Con...

Asia Minor Lullaby

Lullaby

Νανούρισμα Come, sleep, come take her to the gardens and fill her bosom with flowers. Sleep, fair day, bestarred night, O May of bloo...

Asia Minor Lullaby

Lullaby

Νανούρισμα - Ύπνε που παίρνεις τα παιδιά

Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Acritic Song

Marandon

Ο Μάραντον Marandon has received the order to go to war. He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold, He shoes his black steed by...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Acritic Song

Mavrianos' Threshing Floor (The Wager of Giannis and the Sun)

Στου Μαυριανού τ' αλώνι At Mavrianos' marble threshing floor a king and a youth are contesting throwing heavy stones, no one can throw them like Gi...

Central Greece Hydra Couplets Spring Song

May Day

Πρωτομαγιά

Cyclades Kythnos, Dryopida Couplets Love Song, Spring Song

May Is Come

May is come and bids me reap but for his sake I shall not go and darken in the sun. May, dear May with the flowers and s...

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song

May Your Window Catch Fire

Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί May your window catch fire and your door cave in so I may get my hands on your divine body. You sit at your window with ot...

Thessaly Instrumental

Morava

Μοράβα

Thrace Table Song

Mother and Son Did Fight

Μάνα και γιος μαλώνανε

Central Greece

Moutains, Boast Not

Βουνά μην καμαρώνετε

Thessaly Love Song

Mulberry Tree

Η σκαμνιά

Eastern Aegean Couplets Love Song

My Aching Breast

Το πονεμένο στήθος μου My aching breast may well pain me, but does not speak of it, and though my lips may sing a song, my heart does weep within. ...

Cyclades Mykonos Couplets Love Song

My Beau Has Come

Ήρθε ο καλός μου

Central Greece Couplets Love Song

My Blooming Violet

Βιολέτα μ' ανθισμένη

Asia Minor Love Song

My Curly Basil

Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου My curly basil, when did you grow so and spread your branches, little one, and steal my wits away? Oh curly basil, dear li...

Dodecanese Astypalea Couplets Immigration Song

My Emigrated Bird

Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί

Central Greece Immigration Song

My Emigrated Bird

Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί (Η ξενιτιά) My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,                                                              ...

Epirus Pogoni Immigration Song

My Heart-Sick Bird Flown Far From Home

Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί My heart-sick bird flown far from home, joy you bring those far-flung lands, sadness all you leave behind. What'll I send,...

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song

My Heartless Love (Smyrna's Bálos)

Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι My heartless love, do you not feel for me as you don your finery and I lose myself for love of thee? Come kiss me quick ...

Thrace

My Lads from Dervena

Παλικάρια μου Ντερβενιώτικα

Dodecanese Kastellorizo Local Song

My Little Kastellorizo

Μικρό μου Καστελλόριζο

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song

My Love Has Sent for Me

Με μήνυσε η αγάπη μου My love has sent for me, she’s my heart’s desire, to go to her and kiss her. Shine, dear moon, shine upon her, so I may go ...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song, Wedding Song

My Love Is Getting Married

Η αγάπη μου παντρεύεται

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song, Wedding Song

My Love Is to Wed

Η αγάπη μου παντρεύεται My love is to wed and marry my rival, but it’s not that that pains me so, it pains me that she's asked me to be their best ...

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 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...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Loutra Couplets Wedding Song, For the Groom

My Royal-Born Pearl Pod

Son-in-law, royal-born pearl pod, God-fashioned pillar of the sun. The groom was not born of mortal womb, he’s the lemon t...

Pontus Love Song

My Sweet Lambkin

Τ' αρνόπο μ'

Asia Minor Carol New Year's Carol, Ritual Song

New Year Carol (Asia Minor)

Εις αυτό το νέον έτος

Cappadocia / Konya Farasa Carol New Year's Carol, Ritual Song

New Year Carol (Cappadocia)

Άστρον ανεφάνεις Βασίλειε

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

Now Is the Holy Time of Lent (Holy Week Lament)

Τώρα ’ν’ αγιά Σαρακοστή Now is the holy time of Lent, these days are holy days, when services are held in church and priests are chanting hymns, an...

Cyclades

Now in Tzia

Τώρα μες στη Τζιά

Panhellenic Acritic Song

Now the Birds (A Soldier and a Tree)

Τώρα τα πουλιά Now the birds, now the swallows, now the partridges, now the partridges are singing more and more: - Wake up, master, wake ...

Peloponnese Acritic Song, Wedding Song

Now the Birds...

Τώρα τα πουλιά Now the birds, now the swallows, Now the partridges do not cease singing and saying: – Awake, my lord, awake, my good lord,...

Sporades Skiathos Table Song Sad and Plaintive Song

O Black Dawn, Won't You Break

Δεν ξημερώνεις μαύρη αυγή Won’t you break, black dawn so I can find peace, my jewel, so I can find peace? My eyes are close to dim… My eyes are clo...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song

O Christ Is Risen (Easter Dance)

Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου Christ is risen, darling one, so, come, let’s be a-kissing, go fetch a tendril from a vine and, come, let us be wedded. See...

Ecclesiastical Hymn

O Virgin Mother of God

Θεοτόκε Παρθένε. Eccleseastical hymn O Virgin Mother of God, hail, Mary, full of Grace, the Lord be with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the ...

Macedonia Work Song, Harvest Song

O, Sun, Why Do You Set so Late

Ήλιε μ' και τι πολάργιασες

Dodecanese Nisyros Sea and Sailors Song

Oh Yes, Indeed Did Boreas

Oh yes, indeed did Boreas, Master North Wind, truly wish, Master North Wind, truly wish indeed to blow with gale force stren...

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments

Old Nun A-Cooking

Καλογριά μαγέρευε A nun was frying fish and a voice, a shrill high voice, kept telling her again and again : ‘Stop cooking, old maid, and Co...

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments

Old Nun A-Cooking

Καλογριά μαγέρευε A nun was frying fish and a voice, A squeaky little voice, kept telling her over and over: - Stop cooking, old maid, And C...

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Love Song

On my way to the mountains of Prussa

Πάγω στης Προύσας τα βουνά On my way - oh aman, gel aman - On my way to the mountains of Prussa,1 I found a cool brook bubbling. I bent down to take ...

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Lampoon, Children's Song

One Day a Tom Cat

Μιαν ημέρα ένας γάτος

Peloponnese Wedding Song, For the Bride

One Friday

Μια Παρασκευή

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song

One Only Heart in Not Enough (A)

Τί να την κάμω μια καρδιά (α)

Thrace Sad and Plaintive Song

Open Lips, Open

Άνοιξε, χείλι μ' άνοιξε

Thrace Love Song

Open the Door, Lenio

Άνοιξε, Λενιώ, την πόρτα

Central Greece Euboea Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon

Our Tráta All Tattered

Η τράτα μας η κουρελού Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets patched over and over and yet always torn. Our old boat needs sails, Our ...

Dodecanese Couplets

Over Yonder Hills

Πέρα στους πέρα κάμπους

Central Greece Love Song

Panagioula

Παναγιούλα

Dodecanese Couplets Love Song

Pervolaria

Περβολαριά

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song

Poor sad love

Παραπονιάρικό μου Poor sad love who weeps all day, What is it ails you, why won’t you say? Sneak to the window and pretend It’s your marjora...

Cyclades Amorgos Couplets Love Song

Potamos from Amorgos

Ποταμός Αμοργού

Central Greece Hydra Processional Tune | Instrumental

Processional Tune

Πατινάδα

Central Greece Lament

Redhair Wife of the Priest

Ρούσα παπαδιά

Eastern Aegean Love Song

River, Dear River of Mine

Ποταμέ, τζάνεμ ποταμέ μου River, dear river of mine, river, my river, when you fill. River, my river, when you fill and crash, and crash and swell. ...

Central Greece Lament, Local Event

River, Dry Gorge

Λαγκάδι ξερολάγκαδο River, dry gorge, river vái, as you come rushing down your hair flows russet, maid. River, I cannot remember vái, ever ha...

Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Couplets Love Song

Roumbalia - Carnation

Who has seen a love-sick youth and a thief of love? Roumbalia,1 carnation, birds circle around you. He wakes up with sighs...

Epirus Klephtic Song

Samarina

Σαμαρίνα Hey, you young klephts, you sons of Samarina, if you go up to the mountains, the Samarina way [don’t fire off shots, don’t...

Dodecanese Couplets Wedding Song

Save Us Blessed Mary

Έλα Παναγιά μου σώσε

Central Greece Instrumental Pastoral Song

Shepherd Tune

Ποιμενικός σκοπός

Central Greece Euboea, Kymi Couplets Sea and Sailors Song

Should You See a Vessel Pass

An’ should you see a vessel pass, passing the cape of Ochtoniá oh take your little kerchief out and wave in signal to me. S...

Macedonia Instrumental

Sister-In-Law

Συν'φάδα

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song

So, I Decided I'd Become...

Αποφάσισα να γίνω So, I decided I'd become a dome high on Aghiá Sophiá, amán, my love, amán, Then Turkish girls and Greek ones, too, would com...

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...

Pontus

Song From Kromni

Κρομέτ'κα τραγωδίας

Crete Couplets Immigration Song

Song from Crete

Φεύγω και παραγγέλω σου

Ionian islands Corfu Couplets Love Song

Song of the Grape Harvest

Το τραγούδι του τρύγου

Cyprus Couplets Love Song

Sousa's Song

Τραγούδι της Σούσας

Dodecanese Tilos Instrumental

Sousta Dance From Tilos

Τηλιακή σούστα

Cyprus Instrumental

Sousta Dance of Cyprus

Σούστα Κύπρου

Dodecanese Rhodes Instrumental

Sousta from Embonas, Rhodes

Σούστα Έμπωνα Ρόδου

Dodecanese Kastellorizo Wedding Song

Sousta from Kastellorizo

Καστελλοριζιανή σούστα - Μάνα χαρά μεγάλη

Peloponnese Historical Song

Tartar with a Chain

The Tartar’s hauling nine brothers bound, nine brothers bound with a chain, girl with the mischievous eyes, I weep for you....

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 ...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

The Beans

Τα κ'τσά

Cappadocia / Konya Potamia Fable Song (Ballad)

The Bridge of Adana

Ιννιάι μαστόροι

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Historical, Recent

The Captains of Trípoli

The captains of Trípoli, mana mou, the captains of Trípoli and the brave men of Moriá. In Albania they lie, in Iván they r...

Dodecanese

The Day Broke

Μέρα μέρωσε

Cyclades Naxos Couplets Love Song

The Flower of the Garden

Το λουλουδάκι του μπαξέ

Thessaly

The Girls from Agrafa

Αγραφιωτοπούλες

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,...

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Fable Song (Ballad)

The Golden Loom

Μαλαματένιος αργαλειός

Sporades Skiathos Sea and Sailors Song

The Great North Wind Blew

The Great North Wind blew throughout the land and all those, kalé, all those ships that heard him made it safely into shore...

Eastern Aegean Samothrace Wedding Song

The Groom's Time Has Come to Wed

Σήκω  γαμπρέ μου κι άλλαξε

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...

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Baidiri, Asia Minor) (Holy Week Lament)

Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Mπαϊντίρι) ... The Virgin heard the awful news, she swooned and fell, they fetched some water in a crock; three tumblers of flower-wat...

Cyprus Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Cyprus) (Holy Week Lament)

Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Κύπρος) O gentlefolk, pay heed to me, and hear the Mother’s dirge, hear how she mourns her only child upon the yonder Cross. Take n...

Propontis Marmara Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Marmaras, Asia Minor) (Holy Week Lament)

Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μαρμαράς) ... A voice from heaven could be heard, a good archangel speaking. My lady, that’s enough of prayers, enough of doing penan...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Skoutaro Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Mytilene) (Holy Week Lament)

Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μυτιλήνη) ... Obediently returning home, she laid the supper table and patiently sat down to wait until her son should come back. Sa...

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Phourni) (Holy Week Lament)

Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς  (Φούρνοι Ικαρίας) ... – Be off with you, you gypsy scum, and may your hearth grow cold, and may you lack a second shirt to clothe your wretch...

Pontus Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Pontus) (Holy Week Lament)

Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Πόντος) ... Do you not see that naked man, forlorn and sore afflicted, who wears a garment steeped in blood, a thorny crown upon h...

Thrace Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Thrace) (Holy Week Lament)

Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Θράκη) ... Today the sky is sullen black, the day itself is sullen, today all folk are sorrowing, the mountains are in mourning, ...

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....

Eastern Aegean Lesvos Carnival Song, Lampoon

The Mule, the Mule

Το μλαρ, το μλαρ

Cyclades Paros Table Song Wedding Song

The Newlyweds Are Sleeping

Κοιμάται η νύφη κι ο γαμπρός

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. ...

Peloponnese

The Qute Boy

Το μαργιόλικο

Cyclades Mykonos Instrumental

The Rose Leaves

Της τριανταφυλλιάς τα φύλλα

Crete Couplets Sad and Plaintive Song

The Sounds of the Chains

Όσο βαρούν τα σίδερα

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...

Thrace Love Song

The Thraciot Girl

Θρακιώτισσα

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 ...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song

The Words Gone Round

The word’s gone round: the lads from Crete, the lads who hail from Crete, those brave and comely Cretan lads, have now cast ...

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 ...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song, Wedding Song

The Young Meliots

Τα Μελιωτάκια Two young Meliots got up to dance the syrtos, they will ask us for songs and commendations. Come, let us go over there and ...

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song

There Are Hearts That Laugh

Είναι καρδιές όπου γελούν There are hearts that laugh, there are hearts that weep; there are hearts that ache, but don’t speak of pain. Oh, come, my ...

Crete Cretan Rizitiko Philosophical Song

They Are Dancing in Heaven

Στον ουρανό χορεύουνε

Peloponnese Table Song Historical Song

Thirty Ships Prepared for Sea

Thirty ships were sailing towards Cape Malea and Hydra, ten of them belonged to France and ten of them to England, the othe...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Love Song

This Lovely Summer...

Φέτο το καλοκαιράκι This lovely summer that is past, this lovely summer that is past, áde, this lovely summer that is past I hunted for a litt...

Thessaly

This Year, I Will Go to the Army

Φαντάρος για να πάω

Thessaly Love Song

Thorns and Brambles

Βάτους κι αγκάθια

Thrace Lampoon, Carnival Song

Three Beardless Gents

Ήρθαν τρεις σπανοί απ’ την Πόλη Three beardless gents down from the City, five hairs between them, what a pity. Then bré bré bré a fourth sailed in, from ...

Thessaly Love Song

Three Black-Eyed Girls

Τρεις μαυρομάτες

Thessaly Love Song

Three Black-Eyed Girls

Τρεις μαυρομάτες

Central Greece Fthiotida, Ypati Sea and Sailors Song, Historical Song

Three Cretan Monks

Three Cretan monks and three from Mount Athos prepared a ship to sail, prepared a ship to sail. They prepared a ship to sai...

Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song

Three Slender Girls

Three slender girls, three slender girls set out together, they were all three, my friend, all three were dark-eyed girls. ...

Eastern Aegean Chios, Mesta Sea and Sailors Song

Three monks from Crete

Three monks from Crete, three monks from Crete And three from Mount Athos, te-teriri-riririrem1 they fitted out a sailing-s...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Couplets Love Song, Sad and Plaintive Song

To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe

Τίνος να πω τον πόνο μου To whom then shall I tell my woe, who will not sigh or groan? Even the tight-lipped stone itself would shed a silent tear. ...

Peloponnese Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song

Today, My Dark-Eyed Beauty (Easter Dance)

Σήμερα Xριστός Aνέστη Today, my dark-eyed beauty, today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!’ today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!, he’s taken up to heaven. Today, my ...

Propontis Acritic Song

Tsamandas (The Fight of Tsamados With His Son)

Ο Τσάμαντας Up at Saint Thodoros' chapel, at the church of Saint Kostantinos, there are twelve circles dancing and eighteen rings set ...

Central Greece Instrumental

Tsamikos

Τσάμικος

Macedonia Instrumental

Tsifteteli Dance

Τσιφτετέλι

Central Greece Klephtic Song

Turks Hold the Horses

Βαστάτε Τούρκοι τ' άλογα

Eastern Aegean Samos, Karlovasi Lampoon, Carnival Song | Local Song

Uncle Mathios

Ο μπάρμπα-Μαθιός

Peloponnese Love Song

Vassilo Kalamatiani

Βασίλω Καλαματιανή Hey there, Vassílo, o lass from Kalamáta, ah... Vasso, my dear Vassílo, hey there, o lass from Mikrománi. Oh tut, my dear ...

Sporades Skiathos Love Song

We Kissed Each Other in the Night

We kissed each other in the night, and who could see us then? I’ll tell you, dear, the star saw us, and dawn saw us as well....

Cyprus Couplets Wedding Song

Wedding Song From Cyprus

Τραγούδι του γάμου - Ώρα καλή τζι ώρα χρυσή

Peloponnese Wedding Song

Wedding song (Peloponnese)

Ω, Παναγία Δέσποινα

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Couplets Love Song

What Ails You, Crow

Τι έχεις μαύρε κόρακα What ails you, crow, that your wings have blackened? If it’s your heart that aches, come weep with me. ’Twas for you and me...

Central Greece Fthiotida, Modio Historical, Recent

What Ails You, Poor Parnassós

What ails you, poor Parnassós, what ails you that you stand there sadly. Are your snows not deep, are your streams not fre...

Central Greece Klephtic Song

What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?

Τ' έχεις καημένε πλάτανε What ails you, poor plane-tree? Your roots draw water, amán, your roots draw well, yet you stand there limp, your roots dr...

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song, Love Song

What's the matter Theonitsa?

Τι έχεις Θεονίτσα

Thrace Love Song

When I Was a Lad

Αντά ’μαν παλικάρι When I was a lad, twelve years of age l walked on iron and turned it to water, I walked on marble and turned it to dust. T...

Crete Table Song

When Will the Sky Be Clear

Πότε θα κάνει ξαστεριά

Central Greece Love Song

When You Go for Water, Malamo

Σαν πας Μαλάμω μ' για νερό

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...

Eastern Aegean Chios, Volissos Carnival Song, Lampoon

When You Want to Get Married Stranger

Ξένε σα θες να παντρευτείς

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...

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song

Who Ever Saw a Tree of Green

Ποιός είδε πράσινο δεντρί Who ever saw a tree of green, with silver leaves to boot, my little black-eyed girl, eyes black, eyebrows dark as soot. I...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Wedding Song

Who Was the Matchmaker

Ποιός ήταν ο προξενητής

Sporades Skiathos Love Song

Whoever Saw a Tree of Green

Ποιος είδε πράσινο δεντρί Whoever saw a tree of green, with eyes of black and a blond sheen and royal blue leaves to boot, eyes black, eyebrows dark...

Macedonia Couplets Love Song, Carnival Song

Why Did I Fall in Love With You? (Enteka (Eleven))

Τι 'θελα και σ' αγαπούσα Why did I go and fall for you? Why didn't I just get on with my life? Now my head’s swimming and knives have pierced my he...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Easter Song, Local Event | Ritual Song

Why, It Was Easter Day (Easter Dance Song)

Why, it was Easter Day, good George, t’was Easter, the day of happy tidings, my good George, a day of happy tidings, dear D...

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Philosophical Song, Nature Song

Winter and Autumn

Χειμώνας κι ο χινόπωρος Winter and… winter and autumn… winter and autumn eat and drink at the same table. They called for spring to join them, but ...

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia

Yannis Abandoned Banditry

Ο Γιάννης άφησε την κλεψιά

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song

Yioryitsa

I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa, and nobody to know of it. Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa, strangers to...

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...

Love Song

You Dare to Speak Like That

Θα σπάσω κούπες You dare to speak like that, I’ll smash the dishes and all the glasses, damn your tart remarks! Amán, amán, amán, I’m mad f...

Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song

You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea

You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river, and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk. ...

Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song

You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea

Θάλασσα απ' όλα τα νερά You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river, and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk. ...

Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song

You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea

You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river, and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk. ...

Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song

You wear white

Άσπρα φορείς You wear white and hold white and white is your dress And white the flowers that swoon at your passing. Dance, sweet bride,...

Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song

Young Sailor

Αρμενάκι

Thrace Couplets Love Song

Your Dark Clothes, Eleni

Ελένη ν' αμάν - Αυτά τα μαύρα που φορείς

Sporades Skiathos Couplets Love Song

Your Eyes, My Eyes

Τα μάτια σου, τα μάτια μου

Dodecanese Rhodes Instrumental

Zervodexos Dance

Ζερβόδεξος χορός

Eponymous Composer Modern Composition

Zonaradiko - Here Upon the Grassy Meadow

Ζωναράδικο - Δω στα λιανοχορταρούδια. By Dionysis Savvopoulos Young men who’ve let their hair grow long and dress in black all over bring messages for one whom I did once love very dearl...