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Αγιόγιαννης

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Lyrics

Saint John’s herb
Saint John’s herb with its short black leaves.

Two herbs fell out over which smelled the finest.
Basil smells fine which grows in ditches
and the rose, too, that sprout from thorns,
and the stinkweed, too, its stench fills the plains.
Get thee back, stinkweed, your stench fills the plains,
and Saint John, too, its smell is everywhere.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou

Original Lyrics

Αγιόγιαννης

Αγιόγιαννη κι βότανι
αγιόγιαννη κι βότανι κι λιανοκαραφύλλι
κι λιανοκαραφύλλι.

Τα δυο βουτάνια μάλουναν
ποιο να μυρίσει κάλλιο.
Μυρίζει κι βασιλικός
π’ αξαίν’1 ’πού τα χαντάκια,
μυρίζει του τριαντάφυλλου
π’ αξαίνει απού τ’ αγκάθια
μυρίζει κι η βρουμόκαρυα
βρουμάει ι κάμπους ούλους.
Πίσου κι σύ βρουμόκαρυα,
βρουμάς τουν κάμπουν ούλουν
μυρίζει κι αγιόγιαννος
μυρίζει ο τόπους ούλους.


1αξαίνει: μεγαλώνει

Information

  • Region: Thrace
  • Area: Evros, Karoti
  • Categories: Ritual Song, For Saint John of Kledon
  • Rhythm: 4 beats | 7 beats
  • Duration: 04:29

Collaborators

  • Singer: Vangelis Dimoudis
  • Gaida (bagpipe): Yannis Dobridis
  • Daouli (davul): Vangelis Karipis
  • Informant (source of the song): Babo-Vagia Grammenidou

Albums

  • Of Nature and of Love

Recording information

Studio recording, 2005.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Karoti, Didymoteicho, Evros, sung by babo-Vagia Grammenidou, in 1976.

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