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Lyrics

All the captains’ women went
and bowed down before Ali Pasha, before the vezir,
but Leni, Bótsaris’ Leni, will not bow her head.
‘I will not bow down, Ali Pasha,
not before you vezir,
I am Leni, I am Bótsaris’ wife’.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou


Photo: Deneuville, Courage des femmes Souliotes (The Souliot women resist the Turks at Kiafa). Coloured lithograph by Regnier Bettannier and Morton printed by Lemercier et Cie. Athens, National Historical Museum, no. 11146.

Original Lyrics

Όλες οι καπετάνισσες

Της Λένως Μπότσαρη

Όλες οι καπετάνισσες των καπεταναραίων
όλες πάησαν, προσκύνησαν στ’ Αλή πασά την πόρτα
κι αυτή ν-η Λέν’ του Μπότσαρη
δεν πα να προσκυνήσει.
Δεν προσκυνώ Αλή πασά και σε μωρέ βεζύρη,
εγώ είμ’ η Λέν’ του Μπότσαρη.


Φωτ. Courage des femmes Souliotes (Η αντίσταση των Σουλιωτισσών στην Κιάφα). Επιχρωματισμένη λιθογραφία. Σχ. Deneuville, λιθ. Regnier Bettannier & Morton, τυπ. Lemercier & Cie. Εθνικό Ιστορικό Μουσείο, αρ. κατ. 11146.

Information

  • Region: Epirus
  • Categories: Klephtic Song
  • Rhythm: Free rythm | 4 beats
  • Duration: 07:49

Collaborators

  • Singer: Michalis Zambas
  • Clarinet: Thodoris Georgopoulos
  • Violin: Achilleas Chalkias
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Tambourine: Andreas Pappas

Albums

  • Songs of History and Heroes

Recording information

Studio recording, 2004.

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