Έλα Παναγιά μου σώσε ⬥ Studio recording, 2008. Based on Simon Karas' recording which belongs to the Association for the Dissemination of Greek National Music.
Μια κόρη από την Αμοργό ⬥ She’s a girl from Amorgos, ribbon, o my ribbon! she wants to go out to sea, braided, ribbon mine! But how? She cannot go to sea, she cannot use an oar. She pays three hundred florins down, the passage costs her that, and then she gives [...]
Συρματικό ⬥ Don’t have me settle far from home, good fortune, I beseech you, but if perchance that’s what you do, don’t visit me with illness, for illness puts a man to bed and props him up with pillows. It needs a mother at his side, a father at his [...]
Το παράπονο της μηλιάς ⬥ In Konstantinos’ gardens a brook welled up, because of which I planted an orchard with apples and quinces, with laurels and cypress and roses, red set amidst white. And one apple tree, ‘twas a golden apple tree, grew scorched and withered, and another spoke to [...]
Ο σταυραετός κι η πέρδικα ⬥ An eagle swooping over and over the mastic bushes singing sad songs to the partridge scratching in the earth below, sorrowfully called, – Awaken, russet partridge, my sweet companion. I’m on my way to the honey-flowers so you can hear my voice. – I’m [...]
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 [...]
Σαν πας στα ξένα ⬥ When you go off to foreign lands, my love, don’t stay a year there, because it’s more than I can bear, the pain of separation. When you go off take me with you, Take me along for company. I cannot stand a day alone, how [...]
Ο Γιάνναρος επόθανε The song has explicit lyrics, and you can watch the video on YouTube if you’re over 18. ⬥ Yannaros –eh, boom-boom-boom– Yannaros expired. Yannaros expired and willed, that son of Satan willed they weren’t to bury him against a church nor monastery, but only at a cross-road [...]
Ο Γιάνναρος επόθανε ⬥ Yannaros –eh, boom-boom-boom– Yannaros expired. Yannaros expired and willed, that son of Satan willed they weren’t to bury him against a church nor monastery, but only at a cross-road site were they to bury him and they must leave his prick erect, exposed three handspans high, [...]
Ζερβόδεξος χορός ⬥ Local tune and dance from Rhodes and its main characteristic is the alternation of the direction of the dancers from clockwise to counterclockwise and vice versa. Recorded in 1965.
