Karsilamas Dance
See also
Song
A Young and Gallant Soldier
A young and gallant soldier Sought a citadel, a citadel.
He sought a citadel, a village to stop at. He found none, no citade...
Song
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...
Song
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...
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
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
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
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
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 Lament of the Virgin (Thrace)
Holy Week Lament
...
Today the sky is sullen black, the day itself is sullen,
today all folk are sorrowing, the mountains are in mourning,
...
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.
...