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Απάνω στην τριανταφυλλιά
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Lyrics
The partridge built her nest
amàn amàn, high up upon the rose-bush
And the startled partridge started,
and the roses to the ground did fall.
The neighbours heard the news,
the fine ladies of Pàtras,
picked up their baskets and went a-gathering,
to make wreathes of them.
Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Original Lyrics
Απάνω στην τριανταφυλλιά
’Κεί απάνω στη, κι αμάν-αμάν-αμάν
’κεί απάνω στην τριανταφυλλιά
’κεί απάνω στην τριανταφυλλιά
έφτιασε η πέρδικα φωλιά.
Κι αναταράχτ’ η πέρδικα
και πέσαν τα τριαντάφυλλα.
Το μάθανε οι γειτόνισσες
της Πάτρας οι αρχόντισσες.
Παίρνουν τα καλαθάκια τους
και πάνε να τα μάσουνε
στεφάνια να τα φτιάσουνε.
Information
- Region: Peloponnese
- Categories: Love Song, Wedding Song
- Rhythm: 3 beats
- Dance style: Tsamikos
- Duration: 03:57
Collaborators
- Singer: Zacharias Karounis
- Clarinet: Thodoris Georgopoulos
- Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Tambourine: Kostas Meretakis
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Recording information
Studio recording, 2005.
Based on Simon Karas' recording which belongs to the Association for the Dissemination of Greek National Music.
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