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Lyrics

I come and you are asleep amid the white jasmine,
wake up wherever you might live and be, my bushy lemon tree.

My partridge from Livíssi,
I am entangled in your nets.

The keys of my heart take them and open,
there are rose gardens within, enter and walk about.

Come and don't think troublesome
the road to come and find me.

Translated by Mania Seferiades

Original Lyrics

Έρχομαι κι εσύ κοιμάσαι

Έρχομαι κι εσύ κοιμάσι μέσα στ’ άσπρα γιασιμιά,
ξύπνα που να ζεις κι να ’σι, φουντουτή μου λιμουνιά.

Λιβισιανή μου πέρδικα
στα δίχτυα σου μπερδεύτηκα.

Της καρτιάς μου τα κλειδάκια πάρι τα κι άνοιξι
κι έχει μέσα γκιούλ μπαξέδους κι έμπα κι σιργιάνισι.

Έλα κι μην τη βαριθείς
τη στράτα να ’ρτεις να μι βρεις.


1γκιούλ μπαξέδους: πληθυντικός του γκιούλ μπαξές: τριανταφυλλόκηπος (από το τουρκικό gül bahçe)

Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Area: Makri - Levissi
  • Type: Couplets | Processional Tune
  • Categories: Love Song
  • Rhythm: 4 beats
  • Duration: 04:11

Collaborators

  • Choir: Group from Nea Makri (Attiki)
  • Violin: Stathis Koukoularis
  • Oud: Joanna Andrews
  • Goblet drum: Mathios Balabanis
  • Informant (source of the song): Nikos Karageorgiou

Albums

  • Songs of Asia Minor 1
  • Songs οf Asia Minor

Recording information

Studio recording, 1984. 

Nikos Karageorgiou collected the song in Nea Makri, Attiki, in 1982.


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