The Thraciot Girl
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Song
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...
Song
It’s Eastertime
Easter Dance
It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one,
the greatest of all feasts,
you fair-haired ones, you ...
Song
Maria’ S Gone to Pick Some Lilac
Maria’s gone to pick some lilac, a nightingale is singing,
she goes to gather lilac blossom in vineyards and in paddocks.
A...
Song
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...
Song
One Easter Day, One Sunday
The Sinner
One Easter Day, one Sunday,
on a holy day, my little bird,
a mother was adorning her son
one Saturday from dawn to dusk,
...
Song
The Son of the Armenian
The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes,
to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale.
– My master, I...
Song
Tricked by the Birds
Tricked I was, tricked by the birds,
tricked by the nightingales of spring.
They tricked me and told me I would never die.
...
Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...
For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you;
because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin.
I can...
Song
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...
Song
My Heartless Love
Smyrna's Bálos
My heartless love,
do you not feel for me
as you don your finery
and I lose myself for love of thee?
Come kiss me quick
...