When You Go off Abroad, My Love

Σαν πας πουλί μ’ στην ξενιτιά

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Lyrics

When you go off abroad, my love, go off to foreign places,
just see you don't remain six months, and don't you linger years there.
Go, gallivant around the world and with the folks that's in it,
and if you find like me, why, jilt me for the other.

Translated by John Leatham

Original Lyrics

Σαν πας πουλί μ' στην ξενιτιά

Σαν πας πουλί μ' στην ξενιτιά, σαν πας πουλί μ' στα ξένα
κοίτα μην κάμεις 'ξάμηνα, να μην αργήσεις χρόνους.
Σύρε γκιζέρα1 τον ντουνιά και τον απάνω κόσμο
κι αν εύρεις άλλη σαν κι εμέ, 'μένα παράτησέ με!

1γκιζέρα: τριγύρισε

Region: Thessaly
Category: Immigration Song
Rhythm: 3 beats
Dance: Local dance
Duration: 03:59

Recording information

Studio recording, 1989.

Credits

Chrysostomos Mitropanos

Singers

Kyriakos Kostoulas

Clarinet

Ilias Soukas

Violin

Kostas Philippidis

Lute

Yiorgos Gevgelis

Tambourine

Discography

Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)

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