Great Joy Across the Land
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Song
The Swallows of Vlachiá
The Sack of Adrianoúpolis
The swallows of Vlachiá and the birds of the West
weeping late and weeping early, weeping at noon,
weeping for ravaged Adri...
Song
When the City Was Founded
When the angels the City did found
with water from the Holy Mount
and clay from Chios and tiles from Adrianoúpolis.
And wh...
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A Maid Bidding Farewell
A maid was seeing her husband off to foreign parts
holding a candle out for him to see,
tankards of wine for him to drink.
...
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All the Captains' Women
All the captains’ women went
and bowed down before Ali Pasha, before the vezir,
but Leni, Bótsaris’ Leni, will not bow her ...
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At Trichas’ Bridge
At the bridge, at the bridge,
at Trichas’ bridge.
A thousand builders hard at work,
and ten thousand apprentices.
They’d ...
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Hey Mountains of Grevená
Hey mountains of Grevená,
hey mountain pine of Métsovo,
can’t you dip a little lower.
Dip two rifle shots so we can see Gr...
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I Dreamed of It
English translation is not available. The lyrics in French follows:
– Ce que j'ai vu en rêve, mon roseau, explique-le moi:
...
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Mavrianos and the King
Mavrianos and the king were dining in a garden.
Having nought of note to discuss, the talk turned to
blonde girls and curly...
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Nine Villages They Razed
Nine villages of ours they razed
amán amán, and fifteen castles.
Amán, come see the body you torture.
And they took Náouss...
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Old Nun A-Cooking
A nun was frying fish and a voice,
a shrill high voice, kept telling her again and again :
‘Stop cooking, old maid,
and Co...
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The Dawn of Dawn
The dawn of dawn, I’ll rise at the dawn of dawn
to get myself to the mountain’s root,
at the mountain’s root to greet the d...
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Up Siátista Way
Up Siátista way, just up from Kastoriá,
will you not weep mothers, mothers and children?
They killed Pavlos, Pavlos Melás
...