Μια προυσταγή μιγάλη ⬥ And the king did command and ’twas a great command: fleet and admiral were to quit the land. By the Lord’s command and the King’s if-you-please the fleet was to sail for the twelve islands. Many fine ships rounded Cavo Doro, fair flying by; when Lambros [...]
Καλήν εσπέραν άρχοντες ♦ Το πρώτο μέρος είναι ηχογράφηση που πραγματοποίησε η Δόμνα Σαμίου με την Ευγενία Δημούδα στα πλαίσια καταγραφών της, στην Ιερισσό Χαλκιδικής, το 1972. Το δεύτερο μέρος ηχογραφήθηκε σε στούντιο το 2011.
Σαράντα πέντε μάστοροι ⬥ Studio recording, 1973. Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Eleni Tsirigoti, Alexandra Roumelianaki, Yiorgos Tzitzos and Yannis Migdis, in 1972.
Σαράντα πέντε λεμονιές ⬥ Forty five lemon trees. Forty five lemon trees rooted in the sand, their leaves grow green, their lemons juicy. Only my lemon tree is planted in rock, its leaves are golden and its lemons silver. And whosoever touches them is touched, and all that see them [...]
Αφήνω γεια στη γειτονιά ⬥ Studio recording, 1986. Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Yiorgos Tzitzos, Nikos Partheniotis and Yannis Migdis, in 1972. They sing the song when the bride starts from her paternal home to go to church for the wedding ceremony.
Αφήνω γεια στη γειτονιά ⬥ Studio recording, 2008. Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis and Yiorgos Tzitzos, Nikos Partheniotis, Yannis Migdis, in 1972.
Πάνω σ’ βουνί θε ν’ ανεβώ ⬥ I wish to climb, I wish to climb, to climb a mountain height Roidou, sweet Roidou, dear, to breast a marble height. Oh, gather balsam sprigs –let go!, and fragrant boughs– let go! I wish I could sweep the sea, that ships might [...]
Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται ⬥ There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird, sitting on a green branch. A white bird sitting on a green branch grooming its plumage and its love, says, – My summer love, if only I had you for winter, too: in the summer for [...]
Στου Μαυριανού τ’ αλώνι ⬥ At Mavrianos’ marble threshing floor a king and a youth are contesting throwing heavy stones, no one can throw them like Yannakis, like Yannis, Andronikos’ son. The Sun and Yannakis make a wager about who’ll get back to his mother first. The Sun leapt over [...]
Με μήνυσε η αγάπη μου ⬥ My love has sent for me, she’s my heart’s desire, to go to her and kiss her. Shine, dear moon, shine upon her, so I may go and kiss her, o brightly shining moon. But I’m a stranger, at a loss, I do not [...]
Η αγάπη μου παντρεύεται ⬥ Studio recording, 1986. Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Eleni Tsirigoti, Alexandra Roumelianaki, Yiorgos Tzitzos and Yannis Migdis, in 1972.
Η αγάπη μου παντρεύεται ⬥ My love is to wed and marry my rival, but it’s not that that pains me so, it pains me that she’s asked me to be their best man. Father, if you are a Christian and know anything of love take these marriage-wreathes from them, [...]
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, [...]
Ήρθαν τα Κρητικά παιδιά ⬥ The word’s gone round: the lads from Crete, the lads who hail from Crete, those brave and comely Cretan lads, have now cast anchor here. The comely and attractive ones and those who are betrothed, they’ve fitted out of sailing ship to sail the open [...]
Πήραν την Πόλη, πήρανε ⬥ They took the City, they took Salonika and they took Agia Sophia along with it. And they took Agia Sophia, the Great Monastery with four hundred semantra, with sixty two bells and a priest for every bell, and a deacon for every priest. And there’s [...]
Why, it was Easter Day, good George, t’was Easter, the day of happy tidings, my good George, a day of happy tidings, dear Doúkina. All feasted then, and all caroused, and that day all made merry, and George, he idly hung about outside his own front door. Now you see [...]
