Άγιος Βασίλης έρχεται (Προποντίδας) ⬥ Studio recording, 2011. Domna Samiou collected the carol in Nea Karvali, Kavala sung by Georgios Papadopulos, in 1983.
Σταύρι σταύρι βότανε – Song sung by girls on Holy Cross Day ⬥ Sweet basil of the Holy Cross and royal flower of Christ, I strolled around your garden and round your flower-beds. I picked your woodland violets and gathered Easter blossom, and put them in my bosom to make [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Mπαϊντίρι) ⬥ ... The Virgin heard the awful news, she swooned and fell, they fetched some water in a crock; three tumblers of flower-water and four of rose they bathed her with, until they had revived her, and once her senses were restored, she spoke despairingly: [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Κύπρος) ⬥ O gentlefolk, pay heed to me, and hear the Mother’s dirge, hear how she mourns her only child upon the yonder Cross. Take note of tidings dark as night, a day that’s drear and sobre, today has sore afflicted me, and left me deeply [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μαρμαράς) ⬥ ... A voice from heaven could be heard, a good archangel speaking. My lady, that’s enough of prayers, enough of doing penance, for they have roughly seized your son and hauled him to the blacksmith, and thence to Pontius Pilate’s courts, and there they [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μυτιλήνη) ⬥ ... Obediently returning home, she laid the supper table and patiently sat down to wait until her son should come back. Saint Good passed by and called on her and wished her a good evening: – How, with a son upon the cross, his [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Φούρνοι Ικαρίας) ⬥ ... Let Martha and let Mary come and Lazarus’ mother and John the Baptist’s sister too, all four of them together. They took the path, they took the path, the path that was a footpath, and so the path led them in time [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Φούρνοι Ικαρίας) ⬥ ... – Be off with you, you gypsy scum, and may your hearth grow cold, and may you lack a second shirt to clothe your wretched back. They took the path, they took the path, the path that is a footpath, and so [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Πόντος) ⬥ ... Do you not see that naked man, forlorn and sore afflicted, who wears a garment steeped in blood, a thorny crown upon his head? That man is your beloved son and he’s my teacher too. ... Translated by John Leatham
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Pεΐς Ντερέ) ⬥ ... – O holy John, forerunner and baptizer of my son, where is my much beloved son, your own beloved teacher? – My lips won’t frame the words for you, tongue-tied I cannot speak, nor could my heart contain itself, if what I [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Θράκη) ⬥ ... Today the sky is sullen black, the day itself is sullen, today all folk are sorrowing, the mountains are in mourning, today the lawless wicked Jews have taken the decision that they will crucify the Christ, the King of every being. The Lord [...]
Τα ρουσάλια – Men's song for Easter Monday ⬥ – Greetings to you, lord and master, noble lord and gentleman, shall we sing you the Roussalia? – Sing them, pray, my hearty fellows. – You shall be the first to hear them, for we’ve found you on your doorstep. Next [...]
Το τραγούδι του Αϊ-Γιώργη ⬥ A monster plagues our land curled up in a deep well. We feed it poor townsfolk every morn and every night, but when a day goes by without a man for it to dine on the monster will not let a drop of water feed [...]
Σήμερα Γιώργη μ’ Πασχαλιά ⬥ Today, dear George, is Easter Day, my dearest George, my dearest George, Today’s a major holiday, my dearest George, my handsome boy. Today young men dress in their best, and join the promenade. But you, dear George, did not show up, to join the promenade. [...]
Σήμερα Δέσπω μ’ Πασχαλιά ⬥ – Today, Despo, ’tis Easter Day, today’s a day of gladness, the married girls have joined the dance, young girls are promenading, and you, Despo, don’t appear among the living people. Despo, it’s your child that cries, it cries and will not settle. – Remember, [...]
Σήμερα Xριστός Aνέστη ⬥ Today, my dark-eyed beauty, today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!’ today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!, he’s taken up to heaven. Today, my dark-eyed beauty, today all manly fellows, today all manly fellows stand proud and lion-hearted. Today, my dark-eyed beauty, today all pretty maidens, today all pretty [...]
