Yio Mario
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A Maid from Evripο
A maid from Evripo sought to set sail,
she sought to make passage.
She sought to make the passage to the far shore
and pai...
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Fishermen, Have You Any Fish
– Hey fishermen, have you any fish,
any fish or squid or lobsters?
– We’ve got sardines all golden,
as golden as the maid ...
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Again They Entered in the Dance
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
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Our Tráta All Tattered
Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets
patched over and over and yet always torn.
Our old boat
needs sails,
Our ...
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Should You See a Vessel Pass
An’ should you see a vessel pass, passing the cape of Ochtoniá
oh take your little kerchief out and wave in signal to me.
S...
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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...
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The Lament of the Virgin (Marmaras, Asia Minor)
Holy Week Lament
...
A voice from heaven could be heard, a good archangel speaking.
My lady, that’s enough of prayers, enough of doing penan...
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The Son of the Armenian
The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes,
to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale.
– My master, I...
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The Words Gone Round
The word’s gone round: the lads from Crete, the lads who hail from Crete,
those brave and comely Cretan lads, have now cast ...
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Yioryitsa
I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa,
and nobody to know of it.
Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa,
strangers to...
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You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
...