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Lyrics

Forty brave lads and an old man
took up arms and dressed for war.
Slinging their muskets, the mountains light up,
buckling on their swords, oceans shine.
They set off on their way, along the coast
to their mother, her blessing to receive:
‘May Fate smile on you, my children.
Go with God’.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou

Original Lyrics

Σαράντα παλικάρια

Σαράντα παλικάρια κι ένας γέροντας
στολίστ’καν κι αρματώθ’καν για τουν πόλιμου.
Βάζουνε τα ντουφέκια τ’ς, φέγγουν τα βουνά,
βάζουν και τα σπαθιά τους, λάμπουν θάλασσες.
Παίρνουν το δρόμο πάνε, τη γιαλόστρατα,1
στη μάνα τους πηγαίνουν την ευχή τ’ς να τ’ς δώσ’.
Ώρα καλή παιδιά μου κι αντέτ’ στο καλό.


1γιαλόστρατα: παραλιακός δρόμος

Information

  • Region: Thrace
  • Area: Evros, Ambelakia
  • Type: Table Song
  • Categories: Heroic Song
  • Rhythm: Free rythm
  • Duration: 05:29

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Clarinet: Thodoris Georgopoulos
  • Thracian lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Informant (source of the song): Father Panagiotis Nikidis

Albums

  • Songs of History and Heroes

Recording information

Studio recording, 2004.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Ambelakia, Orestiada, Evros, sung by the priest Panagiotis Nikidis, in 1976.


Watch a different version of the song by Domna Samiou

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