Όνειρο το ’δα, λυγερή ⬥ Rizitiko song from Asi Gonia, Chania, with Yeorgios Aggelakis, Stylianos Tripalitakis and Manolis Aggelakis. Field recording (1965).
Τα χελιδόνια τση Βλαχιάς ⬥ The swallows of Vlachiá and the birds of the West weeping late and weeping early, weeping at noon, weeping for ravaged Adrianoúpolis sacked on all the year’s great feasts at Christmas for candles, on Palm Sunday for laurel and on Easter Day for the ‘Christ [...]
Όντεν εθεμελιώνανε ⬥ When the angels the City did found with water from the Holy Mount and clay from Chios and tiles from Adrianoúpolis. And when the angels had built the City they stopped to rest and behold and admire it. ‘But what shall we call this place, what name [...]
Μάνα πολλά μαλώνεις με ⬥ You scold me, mother, overmuch, I want to go abroad now, to go, good mother, overseas to go to foreign places. You’ ll not see me for months, for years you will not run across me. Good mother, feasts will fall as wont, and holidays [...]
