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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Πού ’σαι Λάζαρε ⬥ – Where are you, Lazarus? We hear your voice no longer, your mother and your sister search both high and low to find you. – Why, I was in the earth, laid deep within the earth, it was my foes, my foes who drained me of [...]
Πού ’σαι Λάζαρε ⬥ – Where are you, Lazarus? We hear your voice no longer, your mother and your sister search both high and low to find you. – Why, I was in the earth, laid deep within the earth, it was my foes, my foes who drained me of [...]
