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Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)

Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης
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Lyrics
Like the marble slabs that stand in St. Sophia
so well-matched and symmetrical are your eyebrows, eyes and hair.
I have decided to become a dome in St. Sophia
for fair girls and for dark ones to come and worship there.
Translated by Mania Seferiades
Original Lyrics
Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης
Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης που ’ναι στην Αγια-Σοφιά
έτσι τα ’χεις ταιριασμένα μάτια, φρύδια και μαλλιά.
Αποφάσισα να γίνω στην Αγια-Σοφιά κουπές1
να ’ρχονται να προσκυνάνε άσπρες και μελαχρινές.
1κουπές: τρούλος
Information
- Region: Asia Minor
- Type: Couplets
- Categories: Love Song
- Rhythm: 9 beats
- Dance style: Antikristos
- Duration: 04:40
Collaborators
- Singer: Kostas Diavatis
- Clarinet: Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas
- Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
- Kanun: Agnes Agopian
- Oud: Joanna Andrews
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Goblet drum: Andreas Pappas
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Recording information
Studio recording, 1991.
Based on Simon Karas' recording which belongs to the Association for the Dissemination of Greek National Music.
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