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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

Albums

  • The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

Recording information

Studio recording, 2005.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Kato Panagia, Ilia, sung by Garifalia Sari and Kyriaki Giulbaxioti, in 1980.

Fishermen, Have You Any Fish
Garifalia Sari, Kyriaki Giulbaxioti. Kato Panagia, Ilia, 1980. © Domna Samiou Archive

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