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Lyrics
– Panagióta kai amán, amán, amán,
Panagióta so slender and sweet,
can’t we in the courtyard meet.
– I can’t come down to meet you there
I’m my mother’s precious, ’tis so unfair.
I’m so very precious, see
they made a crystal cage for me.
Now shut up behind this glass,
I’m sent to Venice, alack alas!
To learn to read and write
in Roman and in Frank.
Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Original Lyrics
Παναγιωτίτσα λυγερή
– Παναγιωτί- κι αμάν αμάν αμάν, Παναγιωτίτσα λυγερή
Παναγιωτίτσα λυγερή κατέβα κάτω στην αυλή
– Δεν κατεβαίνω στην αυλή
τι μ’ έχει η μάνα μ’ ακριβή,
κι απ’ την ακρίβεια την πολλή
μου φτιάσαν γυάλινο κλουβί
και μέσα με κλειδώσανε,
στη Βενετιά με δώσανε
να πα να μάθω γράμματα
ρωμαίικα και φράγκικα.
Information
- Region: Peloponnese
- Categories: Love Song
- Rhythm: 7 beats
- Dance style: Kalamatianos
- Duration: 02:59
Collaborators
- Singer: Katerina Papadopoulou
- Flute: Thodoris Georgopoulos
- Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Goblet drum: Vangelis Karipis
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Recording information
Studio recording, 2005.
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