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So, I Decided I'd Become...

Αποφάσισα να γίνω
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Lyrics
So, I decided I'd become a dome high on Aghiá Sophiá, amán, my love, amán,
Then Turkish girls and Greek ones, too, would come along to worship there.
My fair and fat Sultana, dear, you've gone and broken my poor heart,
You've robbed me of my senses and you've made me go quite off my head.
Translated by John Leatham
Original Lyrics
Αποφάσισα να γίνω
Αποφάσισα να γίνω στην Αγια-Σοφιά κουπές1, αμάν, γιαρ2, αμάν
να ’ρχονται να προσκυνούνε Τουρκοπούλες και Ρωμιές, αμάν, γιαρ, αμάν.
Άσπρη μου, παχιά Σουλτάνα την καρδιά μου ράγισες,
και το νου μου τον(ε) πήρες και τον(ε) παλάβωσες.
1κουπές: τρούλος
2γιαρ: αγαπημένη (από το τουρκικό yâr)
Information
- Region: Asia Minor
- Type: Couplets
- Categories: Love Song
- Rhythm: 9 beats
- Dance style: Antikristos
- Duration: 03:37
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Constantinopolitan lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Kanun: Thanassis Stergiou
- Tambouras: Perikles Papapetropoulos
- Oud: Haig Yazdjian
- Bendir (frame drum): Vangelis Karipis
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Notes
A variation of the well-known song Like the marbles of Constantinople. Domna Samiou learnt the song from Simon Karas.
A variation of the well-known song Like the marbles of Constantinople, which is in the collection of the Society. I learnt the song at least forty years ago when I was a pupil of the Society and a member of its choir. Domna Samiou (1995)
Recording information
Studio recording, 1995.
Based on Simon Karas' recording which belongs to the Association for the Dissemination of Greek National Music.