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Down on the sandy beach, down by the water’s edge,
a girl was laundering her silver-threaded dress.
After rinsing it, she lay and fell asleep.
The wind blew from the north, and backed north-west, then north again,
and rudely lifted up her silver-threaded dress
and bared for all to see her ankle-bones.
The beach blazed bright as stars.
A vessel in the offing came nearer to the shore,
it lowered sail and stopped.
– Pull on the oars, my lads, and row for all you’re worth,
make haste there and draw close to where the sun is glittering.
Now if it’s gold, my lads, each of us gets his share,
and if it’s sail-cloth, then we’ll have it for our boat,
but if a bonny lass, it is the skipper’s trove.
Indeed, it was a lass.
Translated by John Leatham
Original Lyrics
Κάτω στο γιαλό
Κάτω στο γιαλό, κάτω στο περιγιάλι,
κόρη ν-έ- κόρη ν-έπλενε
κόρη ν-έπλενε τ’ αργυροφουστανά τζι.
Σαν τ’ απόπλυνε, ήπεσε και κοιμήθη.
Φύσηξε βοριάς, μαΐστρος, τραμουντάνα
κι ανεσήκωσε τ’ αργυροφούστανό τζι
κι εφανήκανε τα ποδαστράγαλά τζι
κι έλαμψε ο γιαλός.
Μπάρκο έπλεε κοντά στο περιγιάλι
και μαϊνάρισε1.
– Για τραβάτε βρε παιδιά, τραβάτε παλικάρια,
για να φτάσομε εκεί που λάμπ’ ο ήλιος.
Κι αν είν’ μάλαμα, να ’ναι το μερτικό μας,
κι αν είναι πανιά, να ’ναι του καραβιού μας,
κι αν είν’ κοπελιά, να ’ναι του καπετάνιου.
Κι ήταν κοπελιά.
1μαϊνάρω: χαλαρώνω, κατεβάζω τα πανιά
Information
- Region: Thessaly
- Area: Magnesia, Trikeri
- Categories: Fable Song (Ballad)
- Rhythm: 9 beats | 7 beats
- Dance style: Antikristos
- Duration: 04:13
Collaborators
- Singer: Pantelis Mantzouris
- Choir: Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir
- Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Informant (source of the song): Dimitris Falkis
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Recording information
Studio recording 2001.
Domna Samiou taped the song in Trikeri, Magnesia, sung by Dimitrios Phalkis, in 1976.
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