Little White Bird A-Sitting

Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται

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Lyrics

There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird,
sitting on a green branch.

A white bird sitting on a green branch
grooming its plumage and its love, says,
– My summer love, if only I had you for winter, too:
in the summer for freshness, in the winter for warmth.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou

Original Lyrics

Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται

ν-Άσπρο πουλά- ν άσπρο πουλά-
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι, ρούσα μ’, κάθεται
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται σε πράσινο κλαδάκι
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται σε πράσινο κλαδά-

Κι τα φτιρούδια του τσιμπά κι την αγάπη λέει:
Αγάπη μου καλουκαιρ’νή να σ’ είχα του χειμώνα
του καλουκαίρι για δρουσιά κι του χειμών’ για ζέστα.

Region: Macedonia
Area: Chalkidiki, Ierissos
Category: Love Song
Rhythm: 7 beats
Dance: Syrtos
Duration: 03:31

Recording information

Studio recording, 2005.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Eleni Tsirigoti, Alexandra Roumelianaki, Yiorgos Tzitzos and Yannis Migdis, in 1972.

Credits

Domna Samiou

Singers

Thodoris Georgopoulos

Clarinet

Socrates Sinopoulos

Constantinopolitan lyra

Kostas Philippidis

Lute

Kostas Meretakis

Bendir (frame drum)

Yannis Tsirigotis

Informant (source of the song)

Discography

Of Nature and of Love

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