Καλλιτεχνικός Σύλλογος Δημοτικής Μουσικής Δόμνα Σαμίου

This song and the song Little apple tree perched on the brink are linked to the popular belief that the souls of the dead are angered when their peace is disturbed. The plot is simple: a young man walking at night to a celebration or erotic assignation, loses his way and finds himself in a cemetery where he walks upon a young man’s grave. Ultimately, the contrast between these two young men – one alive, one dead – brought about by this unwitting desecration, the dead man’s complaints from beyond the grave and recollections of his own lost youth, comprise a philosophical meditation on the transience and fragility of life. Miranda Terzopoulou (2008)

Studio recording, 2006.

It was collected in the 1970s by Yiorgos Amarantidis from Traiani and Theodor Pitsanis, a married couple, during their stay in Athens in order to make some appearances at the Dora Stratou Theatre. Traiani and Theodor Pitsanis, residents of the village of Kitros in Pieria, were refugees from Bana, Eastern Rumelia. Yiorgos Amarantidis handed the tape with the collected songs to Domna Samiou for inclusion in her archive.