One Day a Tom Cat
See also
Song
I Climbed up the Cherry-Tree
I climbed up the cherry-tree
Marie, Maria, Marigo,
to pick a cherry
vái tzigitzéla, vái tzigitzó.
The couple just now joi...
Song
I Went Aboard a Boat
I went aboard a boat but newly built,
aboard a boat but newly built, and landed at St George.
I sought the seaman, strong a...
Song
May Is Come
May is come and bids me reap but for his sake
I shall not go and darken in the sun.
May, dear May with the flowers
and s...
Song
Ribbon Interwined
I had a ribbon at the weaver’s and felt at the tailor’s,
and a loved one in a foreign land,
and him I’m waiting for,
oh, a...
Song
So Many Lies
We’ve told so many lies, a truth now let us tell,
we loaded forty pumpkins on a mouse’s tail.
The pumpkins full of water,
...
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Sweet Perfumed Lemon
– Lemon so very sweet,
so sweet-smelling and plump from the tree.
Please don’t, kalé, don’t smell so fine,
for you have me...
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The Dead Brother
What a mother, vai aman aman, what a fine mother,
what a mother, ela giareni mou ela, what a fine mother
is she with, vai a...
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The Great North Wind Blew
The Great North Wind blew throughout the land
and all those, kalé, all those ships that heard him
made it safely into shore...
Song
The Swing
The girl is sitting on the swing, no dove was ever prettier,
spreads and flaps her pure white wings, and fans the air around...
Song
Twelve Little Evzones
Twelve young evzones decided,
Holy Virgin, they decided to go to war.
On their way, Holy Virgin,
upon the black sea a blac...
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Where To, Master Ant
– Where to, master ant, where to?
where go you burnt so black
with that grub hoe ’pon your back?
– I’m going across the wa...
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Who Ever Saw a Tree of Green
Who ever saw a tree of green,
with silver leaves to boot,
my little black-eyed girl,
eyes black, eyebrows dark as soot.
I...