Καλλιτεχνικός Σύλλογος Δημοτικής Μουσικής Δόμνα Σαμίου

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...

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 ...

Central Greece Viotia, Arachova Ritual Song, Fable Song (Ballad)

A Festival Is Being Held

Πανηγυράκι γίνεται - Local Dance of Saint George A festival is being held, high up around Saint George’s. – Salutations, Frankish lord! A multitude was at the feast and the...

Propontis Nicomedea Children's Song

A Little Seedling

A little seedling a seedling, a little seedling sprouts forth and grows to give us fruit and flowers. A little water, jus...

Peloponnese Klephtic Song

A Maid Decided

A maid decided to join the klephts and set fire, vr’ amán och amán, she set fire to her loom. She set fire to her loom, to...

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Wedding Song

A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed

Παντρεύεται μια λυγερή

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 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...

Thrace Evros, Karoti Historical Song, National Legends and Laments

Alexander and the King

Αλέξαντρος κι βασιλιάς Alexander, bré amán amán, Alexander and the king, Alexander brave and strong and little Constantine. They ate together, bré...

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

Sporades Skiathos Carnival Song, Lampoon

All Day Long I Reaped

Όλη μέρα θέριζα

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...

Epirus Klephtic Song

All the Captains' Women

All the captains’ women went and bowed down before Ali Pasha, before the vezir, but Leni, Bótsaris’ Leni, will not bow her ...

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song

Along the Shore

I’m heading along the shore – say it, little ones to find my love – say it like I do. But I went and found her – say it, li...

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 ...

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 ...

Panhellenic Carnival Song

An Old Woman, an Old Gran

Μια γριά μπαμπόγρια

Ionian islands Kythira, Livadi Couplets Love Song

An Orange Joined the Dance

The beautiful orange joined the dance once more, and its one side smelt just as sweet as the other. The beautiful cypress ...

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 ...

Epirus Klephtic Song

At Tserítsiana’s Well

At the well of Tserítsiana, in the heart of the land, hail fine fellows, there were Bulubasiades watching. There were Bulu...

Central Greece Viotia, Avlida

At the Mountain of St. Theodoros

Στ' Άγιο Θοδώρου το βουνό

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)

Θεια μου Νικολάκαινα Auntie Nikolakena, you haven’t acted very wisely; you silly bitch, you’ve sent your girl to gather sticks for kindling. The...

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)

Θεια μου Νικολάκαινα Auntie Nikolakena, you haven’t acted very wisely; you silly bitch, you’ve sent your girl to gather sticks for kindling. The...

Cyclades Instrumental

Balos

Μπάλος

Cyclades Instrumental

Balos

Μπάλος

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 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...

Peloponnese Love Song

Come Out, My Sun, Come Out

Έβγα ήλιε μ' έβγα Come out, my sun, come out, come out, my sun, come out just a little. Come out, my sun, come out just a little so we can t...

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

Macedonia Couplets Love Song

D'You Hear the Water-Mills

Ακούς τους μύλους D’you hear the water-mills that pound, and how the waters roar? We two do love each other well, so let the people clamour. ...

Central Greece Euboea Instrumental

Dance From Kavodoro

Καβοντορίτικο

Eastern Aegean Chios, Pyrgi Instrumental

Dance From Pyrgi

Πυργούσικος

Macedonia Chalkidiki Instrumental

Dance Tune

Χορευτικός σκοπός

Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song

Dear Mother, I Am Awfully Tired

Dear mother, I am awfully tired of gazing out to sea, to sea, of gazing out to sea, to sea of asking the postman if I’ve go...

Thrace Acritic Song

Digenis Is Dying (The Death of Digenis)

Ο Διγενής ψυχομαχάει Digenis is dying and the mountains are trembling, and all the lords that heard it set out to visit him, they set out, bring...

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 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...

Peloponnese Love Song, Spring Song

Down in the Open Countryside

Κάτω στον κάμπο τον πλατύ Down in the open countryside – why, down there, don’t you see? down there, where all those flowers are blooming, that’s whe...

Thrace Evros, Soufli Lampoon, Children's Song

Down on the Barbary Plane

Down, moré, down on the Barbary plane, the fish are getting married down on the Barbary plane. The ants, moré, the ants ar...

Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable Song (Ballad)

Down on the Sandy Beach

Κάτω στο γιαλό Down on the sandy beach, down by the water’s edge, a girl was laundering her silver-threaded dress. After rinsing it, she l...

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...

Dodecanese Kalymnos Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song

Exile Is the Greatest Hardship

Exile is the greatest hardship, the parting so upsetting but oh, that greeting  “Welcome home”, oh that Maroúli,1 is bliss. ...

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 ...

Macedonia Kastoria Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Five and Ten Priests' Wives (Explicit)

Πέντε δέκα παπαδιές Five and ten –now harken here– five and ten priests’ wives there were, five and ten priests’ wives there were and nuns to th...

Macedonia Kastoria Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Five and Ten Priests' Wives (Explicit)

Πέντε δέκα παπαδιές Five and ten –now harken here– five and ten priests’ wives there were, five and ten priests’ wives there were and nuns to th...

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...

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...

Peloponnese Historical Song

Great Joy Across the Land

Joy and celebrations across the land but Náfplion, my Náfplion, why are you not joyous? Why no scenes of joy, no celebratio...

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...

Macedonia Klephtic Song

Hey Mountains of Grevená

Hey mountains of Grevená, hey mountain pine of Métsovo, can’t you dip a little lower. Dip two rifle shots so we can see Gr...

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...

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...

Peloponnese Historical Song

How Joyous Are the Mountains

Hey, how joyous are the mountains, how joyous the mountains and proud the plains. The Virgin is celebrating today, and the...

Ionian islands Corfu Wedding Song, Wish Well

I Climbed up the Cherry-Tree

I climbed up the cherry-tree Marie, Maria, Marigo, to pick a cherry vái tzigitzéla, vái tzigitzó. The couple just now joi...

Cyprus Instrumental

I Grapped the Apple

Έσυρα το μήλο

Central Greece Carnival Song, Philosophical Song

I Have Grown Old, Goddam It

Γέρασα, μωρέ παιδιά – I have grown old, goddammit, friends, I have grown old and cannot now, I have grown old and cannot now sing the songs I us...

Central Greece

I Have Grown Old, Goddam It

Γέρασα, μωρέ παιδιά 'I have grown old, goddammit, friends, I have grown old and cannot now, I have grown old and cannot now sing the songs I use...

Central Greece Historical Song

I Passed by One Saturday

One Saturday I passed through Mesolonghi, – hail fine fellows, ’twas Palm Saturday I remember. Palm Saturday it was, Saint...

Dodecanese Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon

I Sold My Boat

In Saloniki I sold my boat but when I got home to Chios, I didn’t have a groat. Heave ho once, man the sails Heave ho twic...

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...

Propontis Sea and Sailors Song

I Want to Savour All the Months

Οι γυναίκες των ναυτικών I want to savour all the months, I want to know them all, but oh , not March, I can’t abide the dreadful month of March. Th...

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...

Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Love Song

I Will Climb a Mountain High

With golden adz and silver saw I climb a mountain high, up where the best trees grow. To cut boughs of laurel and apple an...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

Peloponnese Love Song

If I Had an Bitter Orange

If I had an bitter orange, moré, I’d throw it at the window opposite. Sweet Rhodo1, I’d send that vase a-crashing. I’d sma...

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...

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana

In Vervena, in Doliana

Στα Βέρβενα, στα Δολιανά και στον ωραίον τόπο

Thessaly

Into the Vineyard

Μπαίνω μες στ' αμπέλι

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Spring Song, Lament

It Is May Month (Necrolatric Dance of Spring)

Τώρα είν’ ο Μάης κι η άνοιξη It is May month, the spring is here and soon it will be summer, but now the deer are pleasuring and finding spring content. ...

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...

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...

Thrace Evros, Karoti Easter Song, Ritual Song

It’s Eastertime (Easter Dance)

Τώρα τις Πασχαλιόημιρις It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one, the greatest of all feasts, you fair-haired ones, you ...

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

Kalafatiko

Καλαφάτικο

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...

Central Greece Instrumental

Kangeli Dance From Livanates

Λιβανατέικο καγκέλι

Central Greece Instrumental

Kangeli Dance From Livanates

Λιβανατέικο καγκέλι

Asia Minor Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

Καρσιλαμάς

Thessaly Magnesia, Pelion Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

Καρσιλαμάς

Asia Minor Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

Καρσιλαμάς

Asia Minor Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance from Sokia (Söke)

Σωκιανός καρσιλαμάς

Epirus Klephtic Song

Katsantónis

Hail, high mountains and you, low hills, hail dear Katsantonis and you, low-lying hills, my captain hail. And you Tzoumerk...

Central Greece Euboea Instrumental

Kavodorítikos

Καβοντορίτικος

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

Lambro

Η Λάμπρω

Epirus Instrumental

Lament

Μοιρολόι

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song

Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)

Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης Like the marble slabs that stand in St. Sophia so well-matched and symmetrical are your eyebrows, eyes and hair. I have dec...

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...

Epirus Love Song

Little Lemon Tree

Κοντούλα λεμονιά Hey little lemon tree, short little lemon tree from Vissàni, heavy with fruit, I didn’t see you last night and now I’m sick...

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...

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Instrumental

Mandilatos

Μαντιλάτος

Thrace Evros, Karoti Easter Song, Ritual Song

Maria’ S Gone to Pick Some Lilac

Μαρία πάει για πασχαλιές Maria’s gone to pick some lilac, a nightingale is singing, she goes to gather lilac blossom in vineyards and in paddocks. A...

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...

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...

Cyclades Kythnos Instrumental

Melitzaniá

Τα μελιτζανιά

Peloponnese

My Broad-Leaved Vine

Αμπέλι μου πλατύφυλλο

Asia Minor Couplets

My Golden Solace

Η χρυσή παρηγοριά μου

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 ...

Peloponnese Fable Song (Ballad), Prison Song

My Master Drinks Tonight

Απόψε πίν' αφέντης μου

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...

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 ...

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Love Song, Spring Song

O April, April, Cool and Fresh

Απρίλ’ Aπρίλη μ’ δροσερέ O April, April cool and fresh, dear George, a worthy scholar, May month so finely decked with flowers, dear George, so finel...

Peloponnese Wedding Song, For the Bride

O Bitter Orange in Full Leaf

O, bitter orange in full leaf, o leafy bitter orange, Where is your blossom, bitter orange, where are your blooms? Where is...

Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song

Off Tsirigo

Ανάμεσα Τσιρίγο Between Tsirigo and Cape Maleas, Virgin Mother, a ship is fighting for its life with all its cargo, too. Wave-buffeted and ...

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...

Peloponnese Klephtic Song

On Tríkorfa Peak

On Tríkorfa1, up on its highest peak Kolokotronis yells his orders, on Tríkorfa, high up on the ridge, the blood flows in ...

Peloponnese

One Morning, Stavroula

Μια αυγούλα Σταυρούλα

Central Greece Love Song

Ploughed Garden of Mine

Περιβόλι μ’ οργωμένο Orchard, my orchard, orchard ploughed all pruned and daisy-strewed. You’ve flower beds all around, and marjoram in the gro...

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...

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...

Peloponnese Historical Song

Rock of Monemvasiá

Rock, vai, rock of Monemvasiá Rock of Monemvasiá and Athens’ citadel. Hey Palamedi of Náfplion, open up and let me in. So ...

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...

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...

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Lampoon, Children's Song

So Many Lies

We’ve told so many lies, a truth now let us tell, we loaded forty pumpkins on a mouse’s tail. The pumpkins full of water, ...

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...

Sporades Skiathos Easter Song, Fable Song (Ballad) | Ritual Song

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...

Dodecanese Tilos Instrumental

Sousta from Tilos

Τηλιακή σούστα

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...

Macedonia Veria Couplets

Sweet Wine in Naoussa

Στη Νάουστα γλυκό κρασί

Thrace Instrumental

Synkathistos

Συγκαθιστός

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...

Peloponnese Klephtic Song

The Arcadian Lass

Who saw, hail Arcadian lass, who saw the girl from Arcadia, dear Arcadian lass, decked out in klephtic garb? Twelve years ...

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...

Peloponnese Carnival Song, Children's Song | Lampoon

The Crab's to Wed

Παντρεύουνε τον κάβουρα

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 ...

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...

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana

The Harvest Has Ripened

Γενήκαν τα γεννήματα

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....

Epirus Arta, Grammenitsa Instrumental Carnival Song

The Maypole and Other Local Carnival Traditions

Γαϊτανάκι & Παρωδία γάμου

Dodecanese Nisyros

The Pine Tree

Ο πεύκος

Dodecanese Leros Couplets Sea and Sailors Song

The Sea Has Made Me Old

The sea has made me old, yet I revel in her sight. I weep and find no peace, as I lie remembering her at night. The Aegean,...

Peloponnese Klephtic Song

The Snow Shines White on the Mountain Tops

The snow, moré, the snow shines white on the mountain tops and the sun shines in the gullies. That’s how, moré, that’s how...

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...

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 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 ...

Cyprus Sea and Sailors Song

There Were Three Monks

There were three monks and hailed from Crete and three from Ághion Óros1, and they prepared a bark for sea; while chanting ...

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...

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

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. ...

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 ...

Epirus Easter Song, Lament | Ritual Song

Today, dear George... (Necrolatric Dance of Easter)

Σήμερα Γιώργη μ’ Πασχαλιά Today, dear George, is Easter Day, my dearest George, my dearest George, Today’s a major holiday, my dearest George, my hand...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Together With My Aunt Kontylo (Explicit)

Με τη θεια μου την Κοντύλω Together with my aunt Kontýlo I made towards the mill one day, biyirné-biyirné-biyi-biyi-biyirné. I elbow her, she elbows m...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Together With My Aunt Kontylo (Explicit)

Με τη θεια μου την Κοντύλω Together with my aunt Kontýlo I made towards the mill one day, biyirné-biyirné-biyi-biyi-biyirné. I elbow her, she elbows m...

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 ...

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...

Thrace Historical, Recent

Twelve Little Evzones

Twelve young evzones decided, Holy Virgin, they decided to go to war. On their way, Holy Virgin, upon the black sea a blac...

Peloponnese Love Song, Wedding Song

Up Upon the Rose

Απάνω στην τριανταφυλλιά The partridge built her nest amàn amàn, high up upon the rose-bush And the startled partridge started, and the roses to th...

Eastern Aegean Lesvos Instrumental

Vary Vrakadiko

Βαρύ βρακάδικο

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 ...

Epirus Love Song

Virginada

Βιργινάδα A tree… hai hai, Virginada I had a tree in my yard I had a tree in my yard for solace, my love. Its leaves grow green it...

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....

Epirus Arta, Grammenitsa Instrumental

Wedding Parody (1)

Παρωδία γάμου (1)

Epirus Arta, Grammenitsa Instrumental

Wedding Parody (2)

Παρωδία γάμου (2)

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 Klephtic Song

What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?

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

Panhellenic Lampoon, Carnival Song

When Everything Was Oh so Dear

Στης ακρίβειας τον καιρό

Thrace Evros, Kyani Lampoon

When I Went down to the Butchers

When I went down, mistress mine, to the butcher’s to buy meat, he gave me, mistress mine, a bone and a donkey head to eat....

Macedonia Klephtic Song

When You Dream of Brave Deeds

When you dream of brave deeds, my black-fated sons, when you dream of bravery, of taking to the hills, ask me first about...

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...

Ionian islands Kefalonia Lampoon

Where To, Master Ant

– Where to, master ant, where to? where go you burnt so black with that grub hoe ’pon your back? – I’m going across the wa...

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...

Thrace

Who Planted You, My Vineyard

Αμπέλι μ' ποιος σε φύτεψε

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 ...

Dodecanese Karpathos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Yannaros Expired (Explicit)

Ο Γιάνναρος επόθανε Yannaros –eh, boom-boom-boom– Yannaros expired. Yannaros expired and willed, that son of Satan willed they weren’t to bury ...

Dodecanese Karpathos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song

Yannaros Expired (Explicit)

Ο Γιάνναρος επόθανε Yannaros –eh, boom-boom-boom– Yannaros expired. Yannaros expired and willed, that son of Satan willed they weren’t to bury ...

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. ...

Epirus Love Song

You, My Little Roses

Εσείς τριανταφυλλάκια μου You, my little roses you my little roses and you my herbs, my tormentors… ’Twas you lulled me to sleep when my love upped...

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song

You, Sweet Lass

Καλέ συ Oh, those gentle, melting eyes - amán, I’m done for, oh amán! tell me where you found them, lass -  yes, you, sweet lass, ...

Sporades Skiathos Acritic Song

Young Kostantakis (The Evil Mother-In-Law)

Ο Κωσταντάκης ο μικρός Young Kostantakis married young, he married young and took a young wife, and he was young, too, when he was called up to wa...

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...