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Υποψία να μην έχεις

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Lyrics

Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you.
I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me.

You are a garden, I a tender shoot,
I can’t deny my love for you.

From battlements I throw myself, I wish to die,
and my beloved cries out: oh catch him, for God’s sake!

Go to the barber, spruce yourself,
then come, I’ll have you be my mate.

Just like a marble column, you stand inside the church,
the priests set eyes on you and drop their service books.

I speak to you, so hearken well,
and fetch some paper, write it down.

Translated by John Leatham

Original Lyrics

Υποψία να μην έχεις

Υποψία να μην έχεις, ότι πως δεν σ’ αγαπώ
κι εγώ χάνομαι για σένα, μία ώρα αν δε σε δω.

Συ μπαξές κι εγώ φιντάνι1
να σ’ απαρνηθώ δεν κάνει.

Από τα μπεντένια2 πέφτω, πέφτω για να σκοτωθώ
κι η αγάπη μου φωνάζει, πιάστε τον για το Θεό.

Άντε λούσου στο μπαρμπέρη
κι έλα να σε κάνω ταίρι.

Σαν τη μαρμαροκολώνα, στέκεις μέσ' στην εκκλησιά
και σε βλέπουν οι παπάδες και πετούνε τα χαρτιά.

Σέν’ τα λέγω κι άκου τα
πάρε χαρτί και γράφε τα.


1φιντάνι: βλαστάρι
2μπεντένια: επάλξεις κάστρου

Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Area: Smyrna, Baindiri
  • Type: Couplets
  • Categories: Love Song
  • Rhythm: 9 beats
  • Dance style: Antikristos
  • Duration: 03:50

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Clarinet: Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas
  • Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
  • Santur: Vassilis Soukas
  • Oud: Joanna Andrews
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Goblet drum: Andreas Pappas

Albums

  • Kaneloriza

Recording information

Studio recording, 1991.

Domna Samiou taped the song in 1960 at Nea Smyrni (Attica); friends of her mother's originating from the village of Bayindir (Asia Minor) used to sing it. In Chaidari (Attika), Domna met Kostas Pergantis, born in Phokies (Foça, Asia Minor) who sung the same song for her in 1978.

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