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Lyrics

Forty klephts are we, forty brave young lads
and we swore an oath upon the Cross.
And we swore an oath upon the Cross
and another before the Virgin,
if one of us should e’er fall sick,
we would all stay at his side.
No sooner had we struck the deal
than fever struck our captain,
and forty days he suffered,
high up upon that mountain.
The captain’s clothes were soon but rags,
his sword fell from his grip.
‘I beg you, lads, I beg you from the bottom of my heart.
Take me up to yonder ridge, and there ye shall me bury,
cut branches from the mountain pine,
and lay my body on them’.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou


Photo: Carl Haag (1820-1915), Greek freedom fighter, 1861, watercolour Athens, The Benaki Museum, no. 23983.

Original Lyrics

Σαράντα κλέφτες είμαστε

Σαράντα κλέ- μωρέ κλέφτες είμαστε,
σαράντα παλικάρια,
κι κάμαμ’ ό- μωρέ όρκο στο σταυρό.

Κι κάμαμ’ όρκο στο σταυρό κι όρκο στην Παναγία
αν αρρωστήσει και κανείς, να μην τον παρατούμε
κι ’ρρώστησε που το ’λεγε, ο πρώτος καπετάνιος.
Σαράντα ημέρες ήκαμε εις το βουνό απάνω,
ελιώσανε τα ρούχα του πέσανε τ’ άρματά του.
Παρακαλώ σας βρε παιδιά παρακαλιά μεγάλη
πάρτε κι αμέτε1 θάψτε με σε μια ψηλή ραχούλα,
κόφτε κλαδιά και στρώστε μου.

1αμέτε: πηγαίνετε


Φωτ. Carl Haag (1820 - 1915), Έλληνας αγωνιστής, 1861. Υδατογραφία, Αθήνα, Μουσείο Μπενάκη, αρ. ευρ. 23983.

Information

  • Categories: Klephtic Song
  • Rhythm: 3 beats
  • Dance style: Tsamikos
  • Duration: 04:37

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Flute: Thodoris Georgopoulos
  • Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
  • Lute: Kyriakos Tapakis
  • Daouli (davul): Andreas Pappas

Albums

  • Songs of History and Heroes

Recording information

Studio recording, 2004.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Meli, Megara, Attiki, sung by Konstantinos Emmanouil (or Xaxiós), from Meli, Erythrae, in 1980.

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