Αποφάσισα να γίνω ⬥ So, I decided I'd become a dome high on Aghiá Sophiá, amán, my love, amán, Then Turkish girls and Greek ones, too, would come along to worship there. My fair and fat Sultana, dear, you've gone and broken my poor heart, You've robbed me of my senses and you've [...]
Σωκιανή ⬥ Ah, aman, aman, Sokiani1, Sokiani, my heart goes out to thee. Ah, aman, aman, Menemen’, Menemen’, thou art my heart’s desire. Ah, aman, aman, Odemis’, Odemis’, oh my it burn and topple. Ah, aman, aman, Bergama, Bergama, grow rich from toil and gild me. Ah, aman, aman, Phokiani, Phokiani2, my heart goes out [...]
Τηλλυρκώτισσα ⬥ You are a bright star, bright and small amidst the seven planets, the words you've said enslaved my heart. They rushed and told this crazy lass that I'm to go away, go to foreign lands and she's cast a spell upon the sea, the gusts of wind were [...]
Μάη μου με τα λούλουδα ⬥ The May month with its wealth of flowers and April with its dews, I’ve got you on my mind again and didn’t sleep last night. In April and in May and all the summer through, your love, my dearest one, is something very special. [...]
Η νύχτα ώρες δεκατρείς ⬥ The night endures for thirteen hours, I sleep for merely three. Throughout the hours that then remain I think of only you. It is night but day is breaking, dawn allows of no concealment. Night, what sorrow bows you down that you have put on [...]
Η θάλασσα με γέρασε ⬥ The sea has made me old, yet I revel in her sight. I weep and find no peace, as I lie remembering her at night. The Aegean, though stormy, the islander enchants. Her waves for a bed, my pillow is her foam when the maistros [...]
Η θάλασσα με δέρνει ⬥ The sea pounds me, the sea pounds me, the waves lash me. And a great fish… And a great fish is feasting on me. Alas, curly-headed basil I’ve lost my heart to you. There’s no counting the fish in the sea, and no believing the [...]
Μέσα στην κούνια κάθεται ⬥ The girl is sitting on the swing, no dove was ever prettier, spreads and flaps her pure white wings, and fans the air around us. Now stir yourself and bend your limbs to make your blossom scatter, to wither up your cruel heart and cause [...]
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια ⬥ The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes. I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink. Impossible, my duck, impossible, you are doing your best to kill me. I told you not to tempt me and leave [...]
Widow, change your name, don't let them call you widow, for you make my eyes weep night and day. But why don't tell us the sorrow that makes you cry all the time? The widow's pillow is scented with quince, any young man who sleeps there, enthralls his youth. Why [...]
Τα Μελιωτάκια ⬥ Two young Meliots got up to dance the syrtos, they will ask us for songs and commendations. Come, let us go over there and make merry, let us sing songs from Meli! How beautifully paired you are, you two of one height, like the cypress trees1 that [...]
Είναι καρδιές όπου γελούν ⬥ There are hearts that laugh, there are hearts that weep; there are hearts that ache, but don’t speak of pain. Oh, come, my soulmate, come Oh, come and hold my hand. You’ve put a spell on me, you have me all bewitched; you have entangled [...]
