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Smyrna's Bálos

Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι

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Lyrics

My heartless love,
do you not feel for me
as you don your finery
and I lose myself for love of thee?

Come kiss me quick
and be quickly on your way,
lest the neighbors see us
and say your heart is mine.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou

Original Lyrics

Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι

Σμυρναίικος μπάλος

Kαλέ δε με λυπάσαι δε μ’ ασπλαχνίζεσαι
που χάνομαι γισ σένα και συ στολίζεσαι.

Έλα να σε φιλήσω και γρήγορα να πας
να μη μας δουν γειτόνοι και πουν πως μ’ αγαπάς.

Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Area: Smyrna
  • Type: Couplets
  • Categories: Love Song
  • Rhythm: 2 beats
  • Dance style: Ballos
  • Duration: 03:24

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Violin: Stefanos Vartanis
  • Oud: Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas
  • Lute: Christos Athanassopoulos-Mortakis
  • Goblet drum: Andreas Pappas

Albums

  • My Emigrated Bird
  • Music from Greece: Domna Samiou

Notes

The bálos is a much-loved dance in a 2/4 rhythm, from the Greek islands and Asia Minor coast. Danced face to face by smiling couples executing freely improvised steps and figures elegantly and smoothly, it’s as though the dancers really are playing a flirting game of body language. The singer chooses erotic couplets from an endless repertoire to suit his mood and sings them to the melody. Featuring a companía with violin, oud, lute and toubeléki.

Miranda Terzopoulou (2018)

Recording information

Studio recording, 1979.

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