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Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί

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Lyrics

May your window catch fire and your door cave in
so I may get my hands
on your divine body.

You sit at your window with other girls beside you,
you are the rose and they your branches.

How can you ask where we met,
where it was you saw me,
when once you said you could not live
with me out of your sight?

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou

Original Lyrics

Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί

Tο παραθύρι σ’ να καεί και η πόρτα σου να πέσει
τ’ αγγελικό σου το κορμί, γιαντίμ1 αμάν,
στα χέρια μου να πέσει, βρ’ αμάν αμάν.

Στο παραθύρι σ’ κάθεσαι κι έχεις κι άλλες κοντά σου,
εσύ ’σαι η τριανταφυλλιά και κείνες τα κλωνιά σου.

Eσύ ’σουνα που μου ’λεγες αν δε με δεις πεθαίνεις,
τώρα γυρίζεις και μου λες πού μ’ είδες, πού με ξέρεις.


1γιαντίμ: κάηκα (τουρκικό: yandιm)

Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Type: Couplets
  • Categories: Love Song
  • Rhythm: 9 beats
  • Duration: 06:27

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Kanun: Panos Dimitrakopoulos
  • Bowed tambouras: Evgenios Voulgaris
  • Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Bendir (frame drum): Vangelis Karipis

Albums

  • I Tread the Earth Gently

Recording information

Studio recording, 2006.

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