In Smyrna, in the Armenian Quarter

Στη Σμύρνη μες στην Αρμενιά

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Original Lyrics

Στη Σμύρνη μες στην Αρμενιά

Στη Σμύρνη μες στην Αρμενιά έχω κι εγώ κι ορίζω
ένα κλωνί βασιλικό νερό να το ποτίζω.

Την καρδιά μ’ έχεις καμένη και δε με πονείς,
λυπήσου με και πάψε να με βασανείς.

Δεν ημπορώ τα μάτια μου ψηλά να τα σηκώσω
και της καημένης μου καρδιάς παρηγοριά να δώσω.

Θέλεις να πεθάνω να με φάει η μαύρη γης,
άλλαξε τη γνώμη σ' κι άρχισε να με πονείς.

Region: Eastern Aegean
Area: Lesvos
Type: Couplets
Category: Love Song
Rhythm: 7 beats
Dance: Antikristos
Duration: 03:21

Recording information

Studio recording, 1975.

Watch a different version of the song by Domna Samiou

Credits

Domna Samiou

Singers

Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas

Clarinet

Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis

Violin

Aristides Moschos

Santur

Dimitris Nomikos

Lute

Mathios Balabanis

Goblet drum

Discography

By the Flowering Oleander

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Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)

  • Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης ⬥ Like the marble slabs that stand in St. Sophia so well-matched and symmetrical are your eyebrows, eyes and hair. I have decided to become a dome in St. Sophia for fair girls and for dark ones to come and worship there. Translated by Mania Seferiades
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The Water of Life

(Olmaz)

  • 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 [...]
  • SongCappadocia / KonyaKonya, SilleInstrumental

Dance (With Wooden Spoons)

  • Χορός κουταλιών
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Yatzilariani

  • Γιατζιλαριανή ⬥ I brought you a Good Evening, give me a Good Night I had no business here, I came only for you. Come out that I may see you and be comforted. Your eyes have burnt me, yet they are my joy and pride, if I don’t see them [...]