You are at: Home page Her Work List of Songs My Curly Basil
Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου
Listen
Lyrics
My curly basil, when did you grow so
and spread your branches, little one,
and steal my wits away?
Oh curly basil, dear little marjoram
‘tis you will part me from my mother.
Basil I will be, in your pot I shall grow
tended by your two hands.
Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Original Lyrics
Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου
Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου, πότε μεγάλωσες
κι έριξες τα κλωνιά σου, το πουλάκι μου,
και με παλάβωσες.
Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου, ματζουρανούλα μου
συ θα μ’ αποχωρίσεις απ’ τη μανούλα μου.
Βασιλικός θα γίνω, στη γλάστρα σου να μπω
να με κορφολογάνε τα χέρια σου τα δυο.
Information
- Region: Asia Minor
- Categories: Love Song
- Rhythm: 4 beats
- Duration: 04:03
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Constantinopolitan lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Bowed tambouras: Evgenios Voulgaris
- Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Lute: Kostas Papaprokopiou
- Bendir (frame drum): Vangelis Karipis
Albums
Recording information
Studio recording, 2005.
Based on Simon Karas' recording which belongs to the Association for the Dissemination of Greek National Music.
Watch a different version of the song by Domna Samiou