Πασχαλιάτικα δίστιχα ⬥ Easter has come round again, throw out the koukouras and put a red egg laid this year upon the ikon stand. Glad returns of Easter Day, the day all eat red eggs, glad returns of Easter Day, and all say "Christ is Risen". Easter has come round [...]
Πασχαλιάτικες μαντινάδες ⬥ Because today is Easter Day, the world is making merry, all strangers, kith and kin, and friends embrace, kiss one another. If only every day were like this day that’s Easter Sunday, when girls dress in their finery, as pretty viola flowers. I greet you "Christ is [...]
Σαράντα πέντε μάστοροι ⬥ Studio recording (1973). Based on Domna Samiou's 1972 field recording in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Eleni Tsirigoti, Alexandra Roumelianaki, Yiorgos Tzitzos and Yannis Migdis.
Δόξα να ’χει πάσα ημέρα ⬥ Glory be to every day and to the Son and Father and to the Holy Spirit that’s divine and life-creating. Glory be to all the three and to the Virgin Mary, in heaven all is ease and dance, led by the Lord’s Apostles. In [...]
Ώρα καλή σου Πασχαλιά ⬥ God speed you now, o Easter Day, may you be back again; as you leave us may you find us, or else in better shape. All is well this present time, who knows how things will be, shall we be living or be dead, and [...]
Βάγιες μου, Βαγίτσες μου ⬥ Come, Holy Virgin, come along and see these women bearing palms, good women bearing palms, good souls, bend down a little way [so I may cut a sprig or two, to give to Christ our Lord]. Come, Holy Virgin, come along and see these women [...]
Άσπρο τραντάφυλλο φορώ ⬥ I’m wearing a white rose I am, I dearly wish to dye it; and if I’m lucky with the dyes, how many hearts I’ll kindle. I’ll kindle lasses young and old, I’ll kindle stalwart laddies; I’ll kindle even a young priest, so he’ll lose the Gospel-book; [...]
Ήρθ’ ου Λάζαρους ⬥ It is the feast of Lazarus, the feast of Palms is nigh. "Where were you, Lazarus, where did you hide yourself?" "Why, I was in the tomb, entombed within the earth. Give me, give me cool spring water, my mouth is full of bitter poison". "Rise [...]
Τώρα τις Πασχαλιόημιρις ⬥ It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one, the greatest of all feasts, you fair-haired ones, you fair-haired ones with heavy plaits. I climbed a height and caught a view of Alexis’ palaces. So I could see his daughters and what they [...]
Σαν τη Mεγάλην Πασχαλιά ⬥ How wonderful if every day were just like Easter Sunday, when girls put on their finery and dress as gentlefolk do. Come on, let’s have a dance or two to signal ‘Christ is Risen!’, for Christ our Lord died on the Cross, was dead and [...]
