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Ήθελα να ’ρθώ το βράδυ

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Lyrics

I’d have come last night to see you,
amán, amán, amán, but I was caught out in a shower.

Then a heavy downpour soaked me,
amán, amán, amán, and so I left you all alone.

May curses rain on you, you cross-grained harridan.
Nor wine nor raki did I drink; I saw you and was sotted.

Would you’d come, though drenched you’d be and soaked
right to the skin,
for I had a change of clothing and a quilt to wrap you in
and a body you could hold until you wakened to the dawn

May curses rain on you, you cross-grained harridan.
Nor wine nor raki did I drink; I saw you and was sotted.

Translated by John Leatham

Original Lyrics

Ήθελα να ’ρθώ το βράδυ

Ήθελα να ’ρθώ το βράδυ
αμάν, αμάν, αμάν ε, μ’ έπιασε ψιλή βροχή.

Τώρα μ’ έπιασε μια μπόρα.
αμάν, αμάν, αμάν ε, και σ’ αφήκα μοναχή.

Παναθεματισμένη και τζαναμπέτισσα
κρασί, ρακί δεν ήπια, σ’ είδα και μέθυσα.

Ας ερχόσουν κι ας βρεχόσουν κι ας γινόσουνα παπί
είχα ρούχα να σ’ αλλάξω, πάπλωμα να σκεπαστείς
και κορμί για ν’ αγκαλιάσεις ώσπου να ξημερωθείς.

Παναθεματισμένη του χάρου πας και λες
κι ο χάρος δε με παίρνει και κάθεσαι και κλαις.

Information

  • Region: Cyclades
  • Area: Sifnos
  • Categories: Love Song
  • Rhythm: 4 beats
  • Duration: 04:23

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
  • Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Santur: Angelina Tkatcheva-Stathopoulou
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Goblet drum: Yiorgos Gevgelis

Albums

  • Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

Recording information

Live recording from the concert The known and unknown Domna at the Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, in 29/10/1998.

Based on Simon Karas' recording which belongs to the Association for the Dissemination of Greek National Music.

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