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Ποταμέ, τζάνεμ ποταμέ μου

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Lyrics

River, dear river of mine,
river, my river, when you fill.

River, my river, when you fill
and crash, and crash and swell.

Sweep me up into your whitecaps, into your whirls
Carry me westwards…westwards into the Pasha’s well.
Let the blond girls come to wash,
the black-eyed girls to launder;
Let my love come, too, with hair all down her back.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou

Original Lyrics

Ποταμέ, τζάνεμ ποταμέ μου

Ποταμέ, τζάνεμ ποταμέ μου,
ποταμέ, ποταμέ μ’ όταν γεμίζεις.

Ποταμέ, ποταμέ μ’ όταν γεμίζεις
και βαρείς, και βαρείς και κυματίζεις.

Πάρε με στα κύματά σου
στα στριφογυρίσματά σου.
Να με πας στη δύση-δύση,
μέσα στου πασά τη βρύση.
Να ’ρχονται οι ξανθιές να πλένουν
μαυρομάτες να λευκαίνουν.
Νά ’ρθει και η δική μου αγάπη
τα μαλλιά πίσω στην πλάτη.

Information

  • Region: Eastern Aegean
  • Categories: Love Song
  • Rhythm: 4 beats
  • Dance style: Syrtos
  • Duration: 04:43

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis

Albums

  • Of Nature and of Love

Recording information

Studio recording, 2005.

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

Multimedia

Videos

River, dear river of mine (2005)

Concert "Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love", Odeon of Herodes Atticus, 2005

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