Η κόρ’ εξέβεν σο παρχάρ ⬥ The maid climbed up to the summer pasture, my little bird, to become a shepherdess, come, come I say! to become a shepherdess, come, come my joy! And for her I’ll become a hunter in the forests. My lamb, the earth you tread I [...]
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 [...]
Φέτο το καλοκαιράκι ⬥ This lovely summer that is past, this lovely summer that is past, áde, this lovely summer that is past I hunted for a little bird. I hunted it, I yearned for it, I could not stand it any more, áde, I put my bird-lime out for [...]
Τίνος να πω τον πόνο μου ⬥ To whom then shall I tell my woe, who will not sigh or groan? Even the tight-lipped stone itself would shed a silent tear. The sun has set beyond the rim yet the earth still simmers. Oh, may the heart that does not [...]
Με γέλασαν τα πουλιά ⬥ Tricked I was, tricked by the birds, tricked by the nightingales of spring. They tricked me and told me I would never die. And I built my home up higher than the rest with seven, eight floors and three score windows, at one of which [...]
Τι 'θελα και σ' αγαπούσα ⬥ Why did I go and fall for you? Why didn't I just get on with my life? Now my head’s swimming and knives have pierced my heart. The fault was mine, pity me and do what you will with me, open your arms and [...]
Γιωργίτσα ⬥ I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa, and nobody to know of it. Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa, strangers too learned of it. Come, Yiúla, Yiúla, Yiúla, come, take me, open your tow arms, put me inside. The jasmine at your door has blossomed [...]
Τρελέ τσιγγάνε. By Vasilis Tsitsanis ⬥ Crazy gypsy, where’ll you go, all alone at dead of night? Parting from you fills my heart with a yearning that persists. Why alone and in such haste like a stranger, passer-by? I’m your slave, for ever more, take me with you, where you [...]
