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I went aboard a boat but newly built,
aboard a boat but newly built, and landed at St George.
I sought the seaman, strong and bold, who’d been out fishing for a catch.
– Good fishers, have you any fish, some lobsters and some squid maybe?
– Why, yes, we’ve got some fat sardines, just what a pretty lass likes best,
and we’ve some tasty sea-bass too, a fish young girls will gladly eat.
What’s more, we do have squid as well, which dashing youngsters find a treat.
– Thread golden rushes through their gills, and weigh them in the balance there.
Translated by John Leatham
Original Lyrics
Σε καινούργια βάρκα μπήκα
Σε, μωρ’ σε, σε καινούργια βάρκα μπήκα,
σε καινούργια βάρκα μπήκα και στον Αϊ-Γιώργη βγήκα.
Βρίσκω ναύτες παλικάρια που ψαρεύανε για ψάρια.
– Έχετε ψαράδες ψάρια, αστακούς και καλαμάρια;
– Έχουμε γλυκιά σαρδέλα για την όμορφη κοπέλα,
έχουμε και τα λαβράκια που τα τρών’ τα κοριτσάκια,
έχουμε και καλαμάρια, που τα τρών’ τα παλικάρια.
– Βούρλωσέ1 τα, πέρασέ τα, στην παλάντζα ζύγισέ τα.
1βούρλωσέ τα: πέρασέ τα σε βούρλο για τη μεταφορά
Information
- Region: Eastern Thrace & Roumelia
- Categories: Sea and Sailors Song
- Rhythm: 2 beats
- Duration: 04:18
Collaborators
- Singer: Spyros Koukos
- Choir: Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir
- Thracian lyra: Spyros Koukos
- Daouli (davul): Vangelis Karipis
- Informant (source of the song): Dimitris Vlaskos
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Notes
See also an other version of the song I went aboard a boat (Cyclades).
Recording information
Studio recording, 2000.
Domna Samiou taped the song in Agia Eleni, Serres performed by the lyra player Dimitris Vlaskos, in 1964.
Watch other version from Propontis by Domna Samiou.
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