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Lyrics

Dear mother, I am awfully tired of gazing out to sea, to sea,
of gazing out to sea, to sea
of asking the postman if I’ve got, if I’ve got a letter, a letter,
and receiving no letter, no letter.

Oh, how I wished you were the sea and I the sandy shore,
and wished your gentle waves would come and fall into my arms.

Translated by John Leatham

Original Lyrics

Βαρέθηκα μανούλα μου

Βαρέθηκα μανούλα μου τη θάλασσα να βλέπω, να βλέπω
τη θάλασσα να βλέπω, να βλέπω
τον ταχυδρόμο να ρωτώ και γράμμα να μην έχω, να μην έχω
και γράμμα να μην έχω, να μην έχω.

Ήθελα να ’σαι θάλασσα κι εγώ το περιγιάλι
τα κύματά σου να ’ρχονται στην εδική μου αγκάλη.

Information

  • Region: Eastern Aegean
  • Area: Chios
  • Type: Couplets
  • Categories: Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
  • Rhythm: 4 beats
  • Dance style: Syrtos
  • Duration: 03:18

Collaborators

  • Singer: Katerina Papadopoulou
  • Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
  • Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Santur: Angelina Tkatcheva-Stathopoulou
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Informant (source of the song): Zacharias Mikedis

Albums

  • Songs of Dame Sea

Recording information

Studio recording, 2001.

Domna Samiou learned the song by the cantor Zacharias Mikedis from Chios in the '60s.

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