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May

Λεν ήρθι Μάης κι Άνοιξη
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May's come,
May's come and spring,
summer’s come
when the perfumed roses bloom.
I've a white rose I want to dye
and if I get the shade just right,
many a heart will I smite.
Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Original Lyrics
Λεν ήρθι Μάης κι Άνοιξη
Λεν, ήρθι Mάης, αμάν γκελ αμάν, λεν ήρθι Μάης κι Άνοιξη,
ήρθι Μάης κι Άνοιξη, ήρθι το καλουκαίρι
λεν π' ανθίζουν τα, αμάν γκελ αμάν, λεν π' ανθίζουν τα τραντάφυλλα
π’ ανθίζουν τα τραντάφυλλα τα μοσχομυρισμένα.
Άσπρο τραντάφυλλο φουρώ κι θέλου να του βάψου
κι αν θα βάλου στη βαφή πουλλές καρδιές θα κάψου.
Information
- Region: Thrace
- Type: Couplets
- Categories: Love Song, Spring Song
- Rhythm: 2 beats
- Dance style: Xesyrtos
- Duration: 02:22
Collaborators
- Choir: Children's Choir of the mixed High School 'Estia Neas Smyrnis'
- Clarinet: Charalambos Giannopoulos
- Violin: Stefanos Vartanis
- Lute: Mathios Ventouris
- Goblet drum: Mathios Balabanis
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Notes
See also May.
Recording information
Studio recording, 1980.
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