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Song
It is May month
It is May month, the spring is here and soon it will be summer,
but now the deer are pleasuring and finding spring content.
...
Song
It’s Eastertime
It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one,
the greatest of all feasts,
you fair-haired ones, you ...
Song
One Easter day, one Sunday
The sinner
One Easter Day, one Sunday,
on a holy day, my little bird,
a mother was adorning her son
one Saturday from dawn to dusk,
...
Song
Song of Saint George
O sainted George and honoured master, rider of the grey horse,
accoutred with a trusty sword and with a golden lance,
it is...
Song
A mother has a son
Unholy union
A mother has a son, the apple of her eye,
and the neighbourhood would have him,
’tis a wonder the very mountains do not cru...
Song
A partridge I did tame
A partridge I did tame, through April ‘til May came,
the tamer she became, the more she did complain.
All afire deep inside...
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A prince is to be wed
Evil in-laws
A prince is to be wed
to a dark-eyed bride whose folk sought refuge here.
His bride-to-be’s from uprooted stock,
little re...
Song
All the birds, two by two
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...
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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...
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Arta’s bridge
Down on the shore where land meets sea,
where the world ends,
they set to building a bridge,
but the bridge would not stan...
Song
Ballos from Alatsata
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
Song
Dawn glowed in the East
Spouses recognized on the emigrant's return
The sun rose in the East and day broke in the West,
the young man led his black mount to water.
All along the way, he calle...
Song
Digenes is Dying
The death of Digenis
Digenes, Digenes is giving up the ghost,
my eyes, Digenes is dying
my eyes are black, Digenes is dying.
All the lords on l...
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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...