Wedding Procession Song

Τραγούδι της πομπής του γάμου

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Original Lyrics

Τραγούδι της πομπής του γάμου

Φαρλάτισαν1 τα γόνατά μ’
Και τρόμαξεν καρδούλα μου
Έλα κι εσύ, γλυκή μ’ νινέ2
Δεν δίνω ’γω την κάγια3 μου
Την κάγια μ’ καρφουμένονε
Στ’ ασήμι βουτηγμένονε
Έκαμα και πολέμησα
Τσαλέισα τσ’ απαλάτισα4
Απ’ το χέρι με πιάσανε
Στα ξένα με τινάξανε
Παρακαλές την Παναγιά
Να μην σας ρίξ’ στα ξένα, λε

1φαρλάτισαν: έτρεμαν
2νινέ: μητέρα
3κάγια: κάλυμμα κεφαλής
4Τσαλέισα τσ’ απαλάτισα: εργάστηκα και μόχθησα

Region: Cappadocia / Konya
Area: Malakopi
Type: Processional Tune
Category: Wedding Song
Rhythm: 3 beats

Recording information

Transcription of the original 78 rpm recording of 1930 by Melpo Merlier, founder of the “Music Folklore Archive”. The bride sang this song while she was led from home to church for her wedding. While singing it both she and her family used to cry.

Credits

Harícleia Kanaki

Singers

Harícleia Kanaki

Informant (source of the song)

Discography

Songs of Cappadocia

See also

  • The "Musical Travelogue"

Musical Travelogue with Domna Samiou – Cappadocia, Farasa

  • This episode is dedicated to the musical tradition of Farasa in Cappadocia. Domna Samiou meets the refugees from Farasa who settled in Platy village in Macedonia after the Asia Minor catastrophy and asks questions about their lives both past in Cappadocia (Asia Minor) and present in Greece. She also gives [...]
  • Collaborators

Father Theodoros Theodoridis

(1910-2005). F. Theodoros Theodoridis was born in Pharasa, Cappadocia. He devoted himself to the study of the folklore of his native land and, from 1935, worked with the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, which, in 1955, awarded him an honorary plaque. He served as president of the “Pharasa of […]
  • Collaborators

Paraskevás Tsaloglou (Mezarcik)

[1874-1957] Born in 1874 in Floytá, Cappadocia, Asia Minor. He drived a coach and sold carpets from village to village. After the Exchange in 1924 he settled in Nea Kokiniá (Piraeus), where he worked as a greengrocer. As his granddaughter informed the “Melpo Merlier Music Folklore Archive”, he died […]
  • AlbumDigital release2022Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

My Old Torments

Songs of Asia Minor by Domna Samiou. Live recording from the concert ‘Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou’ at the Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, on 8/3/2005. Traditional songs from the western coasts of Asia Minor, Propontis, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia.
  • AlbumCD2002Friends of the Melpo Merlier Music Folklore Archives

Songs of Cappadocia

Production: Friends of the Melpo Merlier Music Folklore Archives. Fifteen recordings from 1930 with the authentic Cappadocian singers (recording by Melpo Merlier) and twelve new recordings -based on the original- from 2001, with musical supervision by Socrates Sinopoulos.