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You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
Áya-móla, áya-léssa!1
Ah, sea, you are an old deceiver.
A curse upon you, fickle sea! What have you got against me,
that you would keep my love so long, so distant from his homeland?
The sea piles up on sandy beaches.
I love you, yes, but what can I do?
O sea, stretched out in front of me, you know how much I suffer.
O, bring me back from overseas the man I love so dearly.
The sea piles wave on rolling wave.
I love you – it’s no sin to do so.
O sea of heavenly delight and wave of sky-blue beauty,
bring back my love to me, to me, so I may cease my sighing.
Áya-móla, áya-léssa!
Ah, sea you are an old deceiver.
Translated by John Leatham
1Áya-móla, áya-léssa: nautical commands, ‘Slacken away, let go!’
Original Lyrics
Θάλασσα απ' όλα τα νερά
Θάλασσ’ απ’ όλα τα νερά και τα ποτάμια πίνεις
κι από τα παλικάρια μας κανένα δεν αφήνεις.
Έγια-μόλα, έγια-λέσα
αχ, βρε θάλασσα μπαμπέσα.
Ανάθεμά σε θάλασσα, τι σου ’χω καμωμένα
και μου κρατάς τ’ αγόρι μου τόσον καιρό στα ξένα;
Θάλασσα βαρεί την άμμο
σ’ αγαπώ μα τι να κάμω.
Θάλασσα που ’σαι αγνάντια μου και ξέρεις τον καημό μου
φέρε μ’ από την ξενιτιά τον αγαπητικό μου.
Θάλασσα βαρεί το κύμα
σ’ αγαπώ δεν είναι κρίμα.
Ω, θάλασσά μου ουρανιά και κύμα μου γαλάζιο
φέρε μου την αγάπη μου να μην αναστενάζω.
Έγια-μόλα, έγια-λέσα
αχ, βρε θάλασσα μπαμπέσα.
Information
- Region: Cyclades
- Type: Couplets
- Categories: Sea and Sailors Song
- Rhythm: 4 beats
- Dance style: Syrtos
- Duration: 04:01
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
- Santur: Tassos Diakogiorgis
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Goblet drum: Yiorgos Gevgelis
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Notes
See also the songs You quench your thirst... o sea, sung by Irini Konitopoulou-Legaki and You quench your thirst... o sea, sung by Irini Liadaki.
Recording information
Studio recording, 1989.
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