The Sun Sets, the Day Ends
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Song
A Young Lad
A Soldier and a Tree
A young man, a fine young lad
went off in search of a castle, Greek lass of mine.
And though he found no castles and no vil...
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Digenes Is Dying
The Death of Digenis
Digenes, Digenes is giving up the ghost,
my eyes, Digenes is dying
my eyes are black, Digenes is dying.
All the lords on l...
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Fair Evgenoula
Charon and the Maid
Evgenoula, the fair maid beloved by all,
went and boasted she had no fear of death,
that she had houses tall and a sweethea...
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I Will Climb a Mountain High
With golden adz and silver saw
I climb a mountain high,
up where the best trees grow.
To cut boughs of laurel and apple an...
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I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height
I wish to climb, I wish to climb, to climb a mountain height
Roidou, sweet Roidou, dear, to breast a marble height.
Oh, gat...
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I Would I Were a Bird
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...
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Kostantis the Only Son
Kostantis the only son, young and cosseted,
his mother's only son, her precious darling.
She'd scrub him, comb his hair and...
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May
May's come,
May's come and spring,
summer’s come
when the perfumed roses bloom.
I've a white rose I want to dye
and if I...
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When You Go off to Foreign Lands
When you go off to foreign lands, my love, don’t stay a year there,
because it’s more than I can bear, the pain of separatio...
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You Drive Me Mother out from Home
You drive me, mother, out from home, in truth though I’ll be going.
I’ll migrate with the little birds and with the long-win...
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Zonaradiko - Here Upon the Grassy Meadow
Young men who’ve let their hair grow long and dress in black all over
bring messages for one whom I did once love very dearl...