Tellyrkotissa
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Song
An Orange Joined the Dance
The beautiful orange
joined the dance once more,
and its one side smelt just as sweet as the other.
The beautiful cypress ...
Song
Aroafnou
In the neighbourhood close by, up in Koilanin
there are three beautiful maids and they are singing.
One shrill, one deep of...
Song
Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you,
from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria,
to be of noble bi...
Song
I Come and You Are Asleep
I come and you are asleep amid the white jasmine,
wake up wherever you might live and be, my bushy lemon tree.
My partridge...
Song
January Violet
January violet, January violet,
my winter violet in bloom.
Who will drift off
and sleep in your shade
trialalalalala, who...
Song
Roumbalia
They sent me a carnation plant, Roumbaliá, Roumbaliá,
from the land of the Franks,
and the pot is made of marble, Roumbaliá...
Song
Roumbalia - Carnation
Who has seen a love-sick youth and a thief of love?
Roumbalia,1 carnation,
birds circle around you.
He wakes up with sighs...
Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Cyprus)
Holy Week Lament
O gentlefolk, pay heed to me, and hear the Mother’s dirge,
hear how she mourns her only child upon the yonder Cross.
Take n...
Song
The Water of Life
Olmaz
The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.
Impossible, my ...
Song
The Widow
Widow, change your name, don't let them call you widow,
for you make my eyes weep night and day.
But why don't tell us
the...
Song
The Young Meliots
Two young Meliots got up to dance the syrtos,
they will ask us for songs and commendations.
Come, let us go over there and ...
Song
Wake up My Black Eyed One
The Grasses of the Earth
Wake up my black eyed one I’ve come to your neighbourhood,
I have brought you a golden tress to plait your hair.
Your black...
Song
Yatzilariani
I brought you a Good Evening, give me a Good Night
I had no business here, I came only for you.
Come out that I may see
yo...
Song
Yioryitsa
I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa,
and nobody to know of it.
Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa,
strangers to...
Song
You Have Entangled Me
You have entangled me, you have,
like a bee,
I am fed up being your slave
and also your ransomer, my little one.
You have...