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Fishermen, Have You Any Fish
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Lyrics
– Hey fishermen, have you any fish,
any fish or squid or lobsters?
– We’ve got sardines all golden,
as golden as the maid is fair.
– Mistress, I heard you have a boat
and lay down nets,
and have come to seek its use:
for black eyes I would fish.
Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Original Lyrics
Έχετε ψαράδες ψάρια
− Έχετε ψαράδες ψάρια, έχετε ψαράδες ψάρια,
έχετε ψαράδες ψάρια, αστακούς και καλαμάρια,
αστακούς και καλαμάρια.
− Έχομε χρυσή σαρδέλα
σαν την έμορφη κοπέλα.
− Έμαθα κυρά πως έχεις
ψαροπούλα και ψαρεύεις
κι ήρθα να σου τη γυρέψω
μαύρα μάτια να ψαρέψω.
Information
- Region: Asia Minor
- Area: Erythraea, Kato Panagia
- Type: Couplets
- Categories: Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
- Rhythm: 4 beats
- Duration: 03:38
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Clarinet: Thodoris Georgopoulos
- Constantinopolitan lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Bendir (frame drum): Vangelis Karipis
- Informant (source of the song): Kyriaki Gioulbaxioti, Garyfalia Sουri
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Recording information
Studio recording, 2005.
Domna Samiou taped the song in Kato Panagia, Ilia, sung by Garifalia Sari and Kyriaki Giulbaxioti, in 1980.