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Olmaz
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια
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Lyrics
The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.
Impossible, my duck, impossible,
you are doing your best to kill me.
I told you not to tempt me and leave me in my misery
You have taken my reason from my head.
Come, let us go where you say,
there, where birds build their nests.
Translated by Mania Seferiades
Original Lyrics
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια
Ολμάζ
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια τρέχει αθάνατο νερό, σεβντίμ1 αμάν
και σου γύρεψα λιγάκι και δε μου ’δωσες να πιω.
Ολμάζ2 πιπίνι3 μου, ολμάζ
να με πεθάνεις πολεμάς.
Είπα σου μη με πειράζεις κι άσε με στο χάλι μου, σεβντίμ, αμάν
και το νου μου τον επήρες από το κεφάλι μου.
Έλα να πάμ’ εκεί που λες
που κάνουν τα πουλιά φωλιές.
1σεβντίμ: αγάπησα (από το τουρκικό sevdim)
2ολμάζ: δε γίνεται (από το τουρκικό olmaz)
3πιπίνι: πιτσούνι, όμορφη κοπέλα
Information
- Region: Asia Minor
- Area: Erythraea, Meli
- Type: Couplets
- Categories: Love Song
- Rhythm: 9 beats
- Dance style: Antikristos
- Duration: 03:48
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Clarinet: Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas
- Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
- Kanun: Agnes Agopian
- Oud: Joanna Andrews
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Goblet drum: Andreas Pappas
- Informant (source of the song): Yannis Zikas
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Recording information
Studio recording, 1991.
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Domna Samiou learned the song this from refugees from the village of Meli in the province of Karabournou in Asia Minor, settled in Meli settlement of Megara, Attica, in 1980.
Ioannis Nik. Zikas made also a recording of the song in 1980 and handed it over to Domna Samiou.
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