I Saw Some Black Smoke
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Charon and the Brave Men
The Death of Digenis
My friends, what happened to all the brave men in the world?
They're not on the mountains and they're not in the passes.
Th...
Song
A Maid Bidding Farewell
A maid was seeing her husband off to foreign parts
holding a candle out for him to see,
tankards of wine for him to drink.
...
Song
A Nun With Child
The Song of Porphyris
A nun swelled up with child and bore a manly boy.
Within a month he was carrying a sword, within a year a musket
and at thr...
Song
An Eagle Soared
An eagle soared high in the sky, high in the heavens
with its bloody red jaws and its soot black crown
and clutching a brav...
Song
By Command of the King
The Song of Porphyris
The king commanded
every fair maid and every brave lad
in every vilayet to gather before him.
And when the fair maids and ...
Song
Digenes Rescues His Beloved
Akritas laboured down by the river,
Coming and going he laboured, tracing five furrows,
Coming and going he sowed nine meas...
Song
Kostantis and Kostantas
The Death of Digenis
Oh, Kostantis, oh, Kostantas, oh, young Kostantinos,
for three long years wandered looking for a good wife to wed,
[to find...
Song
The Castle of the Beauty
I've never seen a castle as fair as the Castle of the Beauty.
It has silver gates and silver keys,
I've never seen another ...
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The Dawn of Dawn
The dawn of dawn, I’ll rise at the dawn of dawn
to get myself to the mountain’s root,
at the mountain’s root to greet the d...
Song
The Eagle (On a Mountain High)
On a high mountain, on a sharp, steep rock,
an eagle was standing and he was gazing,
an eagle soaked and freezing.
He year...