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Little White Bird A-Sitting

Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται
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Lyrics
There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird,
sitting on a green branch.
A white bird sitting on a green branch
grooming its plumage and its love, says,
– My summer love, if only I had you for winter, too:
in the summer for freshness, in the winter for warmth.
Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Original Lyrics
Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται
ν-Άσπρο πουλά- ν άσπρο πουλά-
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι, ρούσα μ’, κάθεται
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται σε πράσινο κλαδάκι
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται σε πράσινο κλαδά-
Κι τα φτιρούδια του τσιμπά κι την αγάπη λέει:
Αγάπη μου καλουκαιρ’νή να σ’ είχα του χειμώνα
του καλουκαίρι για δρουσιά κι του χειμών’ για ζέστα.
Information
- Region: Macedonia
- Area: Chalkidiki, Ierissos
- Categories: Love Song
- Rhythm: 7 beats
- Dance style: Syrtos
- Duration: 03:31
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Clarinet: Thodoris Georgopoulos
- Constantinopolitan lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Bendir (frame drum): Kostas Meretakis
- Informant (source of the song): Yannis Tsirigotis
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Recording information
Studio recording, 2005.
Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Eleni Tsirigoti, Alexandra Roumelianaki, Yiorgos Tzitzos and Yannis Migdis, in 1972.
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