Καλώς τα τα Χριστούγεννα ♦ The same carol sung by Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir (2019) directed and supervised by Katerina Papadopoulou. From Yiorgos Ε. Papadakis’s archive.
Είπαμε πολλά ψέματα ⬥ We’ve told so many lies, a truth now let us tell, we loaded forty pumpkins on a mouse’s tail. The pumpkins full of water, and the water full of frogs, when the frogs croaked, the mouse kicked up his clogs. He shed his load, ran off, [...]
Πούλια εβασίλεψε ⬥ The evening star has set, the morning star arisen but back home from school my boy still isn’t. The evening star for company, the moon to light his way, and the bright morning star to save him from dismay. The teacher was shouting and brandishing his cane [...]
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 [...]
Τι έχεις μαύρε κόρακα ⬥ What ails you, crow, that your wings have blackened? If it’s your heart that aches, come weep with me. ’Twas for you and me that sorrows were born, and heartache pain and sighing, too. The crow’s born white but ends up black, like all those [...]
Ήλιε μου, ίντα σου ’καμα ⬥ What did I do to you, my sun, what did I do? What did I do and now you’re set on setting? Tourna, tourna, tourna there’s a storm blown up. And you leave me in the dark… and you leave me in the dark [...]
