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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

Albums

  • Of Nature and of Love

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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