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Easter Dance

Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου

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Lyrics

Christ is risen, darling one, so, come, let’s be a-kissing,
go fetch a tendril from a vine and, come, let us be wedded.

See for yourself that I am here,
I travelled on a star last night.

Most beautiful of holy days is surely Easter Sunday:
with gilded candles they parade the Resurrection ikon.

My viola and pansy-flower,
I swear I never shall forget you.

Let Easter be a kind of arch, bend low and pass beneath it
and on the feast of saintly George, see you repeat your action.

Now you must wear, now you must wear
a gilly-flower in your lapel.

Translated by John Leatham

Original Lyrics

Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου

Της Λαμπρής

Χριστός Ανέ- Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου
Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου κι έλα να φιληθούμε,
έτσ’ είναι μάτια μου, έτσ’ είναι κι έλα να φιληθούμε,
πάρε και κλή- πάρε και κλήμα τ’ αμπελιού
πάρε και κλήμα τ’αμπελιού κι έλ’ να στεφανωθούμε.

Έβγα να με δεις που ήρθα
τ’ άστρι μ’ έφερε τη νύχτα.

Όμορφη πού ’ναι η Λαμπρή απ’ όλες τσι σκολάδες,
που βγάζουν την Ανάσταση μ’ ολόχρυσες λαμπάδες.

Βιόλα μου και κατιφέ μου
δε σ’ αλησμονώ ποτέ μου.

Και η Λαμπρή καμάρα ’ναι, σκύψε και πέρασέ την
και πάλι και τ’ Αϊ-Γιωργιού, ξαναδευτέρωσέ την.

Σένα πρέπει, σένα πρέπει
το γαρίφαλο στην τσέπη.

Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Area: Erythraea, Meli
  • Type: Couplets
  • Categories: Easter Song, Ritual Song
  • Rhythm: 4 beats
  • Duration: 05:27

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Constantinopolitan lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Kanun: Panos Dimitrakopoulos
  • Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Ney: Harris Lambrakis
  • Bendir (frame drum): Katerina Mitropoulou
  • Informant (source of the song): Maria Karamblaka

Albums

  • Easter Songs

Recording information

Studio recording, 1997.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Meli, Megara, Attiki, sung by Maria Karablaka and a group of women, in 1981.


Watch a different version of the song by Domna Samiou

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