Λέιλαλιμ ⬥ Oh, I’m standing on the castle height, lilac-sweet, my love, my love, lilac-sweet, lilac-sweet. I am all of twelve years old, alack, alack, good master. And since I reached the age of twelve, lilac-sweet, I’ve been chasing after girls, good master. They’re eating melons in the castle, lilac-sweet, [...]
Μαρία πάει για πασχαλιές ⬥ Maria’s gone to pick some lilac, a nightingale is singing, she goes to gather lilac blossom in vineyards and in paddocks. And as she gathers lilac blossom, with laughter and a burst of song, she finds the nightingale that carols. She creeps towards it on [...]
Άκουσ’ ισύ προυτουσυρτή ⬥ Now hear me, you who leads the dance and you who twists and tangles direct the dance along a course resembling reeds a-swaying. I’ll spot the girls both tall and slim, and her whom I’m in love with, and him who has her by the hand, [...]
Τώρα ’ν’ αγιά Σαρακοστή ⬥ Now is the holy time of Lent, these days are holy days, when services are held in church and priests are chanting hymns, and they intone ‘O Holy God’ and read the Holy Gospel. Whoever reads it, he is saved, and blessed is he who [...]
Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου ⬥ Christ is risen, darling one, so, come, let’s be a-kissing, go fetch a tendril from a vine and, come, let us be wedded. See for yourself that I am here, I travelled on a star last night. Most beautiful of holy days is surely Easter [...]
Πιρπιρίτσα πιρπατεί ⬥ Pirpiritsa walking along imploring God, – God, rain down a rain, a gentle rain for the wheat and for the barley and for all God’s seeds and crops. Ponds, ponds full with water furrows furrowed with a hoe. Dear Lord, chuck it down in buckets. Translated by [...]
Αγιόγιαννης ⬥ Saint John’s herb Saint John’s herb with its short black leaves. Two herbs fell out over which smelled the finest. Basil smells fine which grows in ditches and the rose, too, that sprout from thorns, and the stinkweed, too, its stench fills the plains. Get thee back, stinkweed, [...]
Το τραγούδι του Aϊ-Γιώργη ⬥ O sainted George and honoured master, rider of the grey horse, accoutred with a trusty sword and with a golden lance, it is my wish to compliment your glory and the prowess with which you slayed the monstrous beast, the huge and fearsome lion; at [...]
