List of Songs

A complete list of songs and tunes from the Association’s releases, other releases edited by Domna Samiou, her collaborations, and selected songs from her field collections and recordings.

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  • SongMacedoniaKavala, NikisianiLove Song

A Blue Dove

  • Μια γαλάζια περιστέρα ⬥ A blue dove, oh, a blue dove flew by. Flying from mountain to mountain she was searching for her mate. My love so far away, tell me, my love in a foreign land, how I can wait? Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Άγουρους από Σερή
  • SongThessalyFor the Bride, Wedding Song

A Boy from Syria

  • Άγουρος από Σερή ⬥ Studio recording, 1964. Released in 45 rpm disc (Fidelity 7315, 1964) supervised by Domna Samiou.
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  • SongThessalyLarissa, TyrnavosBawdy Song, Carnival Song

A Braggart of a Cunt (Explicit)

  • Ένα μουνί παινεύτηκε ⬥ A braggart of a cunt declaimed to East and West alike that there was not a cock at hand to come along and fuck it. My cock, which soon got wind of this, was very much offended. It got its balls to serve as wings and [...]
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  • SongMacedoniaHistorical Song

A Brave Young Lad Set Out

  • Λεβέντης εξεκίνησε ⬥ A brave young lad set out for Macedonia, where Pavlos men was gathering, men in whom the spirit of Twenty One lived on. – Boys, Kastoria is calling for our help, Kastoria and all of Macedonia. Grevena has bid us come. I’d bridge every gorge and every [...]
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  • SongPontusImmigration Song, Wedding Song

A Cretan Ship

  • Ένα καράβι κρητικό ⬥ – A Cretan ship, nor large nor small, just two and forty cubits long, brought me to strange and unknown lands. – O alien, exiled far from home, you walk in strange and unknown lands. – T’was here what I did take to wife a Frankish [...]
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  • SongThessalyLarissa, DrymosBawdy Song, Carnival Song

A Cunt up in the Cherry-Tree (Explicit)

  • Ένα μουνί στην κερασιά ⬥ A cunt, my friend, a cunt, a cunt up in the cherry-tree. A cunt up in the cherry-tree, the cock way down below. Five times in all he makes his plaint: – O cunt, come down from there. “I’ll not come down, you hugeous prick, [...]
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  • SongCycladesParosFable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Maid Did Sing

  • Μια λυγερή τραγούδησε ⬥ A fair maid did sing out in the moonlight, but the gentle wind took her song and swept it out to sea and every boat that heard it reefed its sails save a boat from Sfakiá with its Cretan crew that could neither reef sails nor [...]
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  • SongCentral GreeceEuboea, Agios DimitriosFable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Maid Did Sing

  • Κόρη ξανθή τραγούδησε ⬥ A fair maid did sing upon a rope bridge, but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still. And the river spirit came to her and asked: – Girl, if you are still a maid, may you never know a man, and if you’ve children and [...]
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  • SongThessalyMagnesia, TrikeriFable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Trikeriotissa

  • Μια κόρη Τρικεριώτισσα ⬥ A fair Trikeriotissa, a comely Trikeri girl, is mistress of a silver loom that has an ivory heddle. As she spooled threads on reels of reed and softly sang a ballad, her goodman rode up to her door astride a coal-black stallion. – A greeting to [...]
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  • SongCentral GreeceViotia, ArachovaFable Song (Ballad), Ritual Song

A Festival Is Being Held

  • Πανηγυράκι γίνεται (Local Dance of Saint George) ⬥ A festival is being held, high up around Saint George’s. – Salutations, Frankish lord! A multitude was at the feast and there was little water, – Coming ! Out of there! Show me! A ribbon and a maypole, a ribbon loosely woven, [...]
Βασιλικός θα γίνω
  • SongEpirusLove Song

A Flower at Your Window

  • Βασιλικός θα γίνω ⬥ Studio recording, 1959. One of the most popular songs from Epirus and a characteristic dance of the Pogoni province.
Ο ξένος μες στην ξενιτιά
  • SongDodecaneseImmigration SongCouplets

A Foreign Man in Foreign Lands

  • Ο ξένος μες στην ξενιτιά ⬥ Studio recording, in 1966. Released in extended play 45 rpm disc (Fidelity 8054, 1966) supervised by Domna Samiou.
Μια προυσταγή μιγάλη
  • SongMacedoniaChalkidiki, IerissosHistorical Song

A Great Command

  • Μια προυσταγή μιγάλη ⬥ And the king did command and ’twas a great command: fleet and admiral were to quit the land. By the Lord’s command and the King’s if-you-please the fleet was to sail for the twelve islands. Many fine ships rounded Cavo Doro, fair flying by; when Lambros [...]
Σο έναν τ' αναστέναγμα μ'
  • SongPontusLament

A Heavy Sigh

  • Σο έναν τ' αναστέναγμα μ' ⬥ Studio recording, 1966. Released in 45 rpm disc (Fidelity 7399, 1966) supervised by Domna Samiou.
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  • SongPropontisNicomedeaChildren's Song

A Little Seedling

  • Ένα μικρό φιντάνι ⬥ A little seedling a seedling, a little seedling sprouts forth and grows to give us fruit and flowers. A little water, just a drop to wash down the goodness so it won’t wane, so all will not be lost. So the leaves won’t wilt and the [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorErythraea, MeliFable Song (Ballad)

A Little Shorty (Meli, Erythraea)

  • Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Mελί Eρυθραίας) ⬥ A little shorty, a short little man, aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, was jealous, the whole country was jealous of him and none more than his own mother. A pasha, too, was jealous of his beautiful wife [...]
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  • SongSporadesSkiathosFable Song (Ballad)

A Little Shorty (Skiathos)

  • Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Σκιάθος) ⬥ A short little man had a beautiful wife. The whole neighbourhood was jealous, and all the land and a pasha, a pasha envied him, too. He taxed him hard, imposed a load too heavy to bear. He sold vineyards heavy with grapes and fields swaying [...]
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  • SongCreteChania, LakkoiFable Song (Ballad)

A Maid Bidding Farewell

  • Μια κόρη συναπόβγανε ⬥ A maid was seeing her husband off to foreign parts holding a candle out for him to see, tankards of wine for him to drink. And as the wine poured forth, the words did too: – You’re leaving, Konstantinos my love, what would you have me [...]
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  • SongPeloponneseKlephtic Song

A Maid Decided

  • Μια κόρη τ’ απεφάσισε ⬥ A maid decided to join the klephts and set fire, vr’ amán och amán, she set fire to her loom. She set fire to her loom, to her ivory comb, armed herself and joined the klephts. Twelve years she led them and no man ever [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorFable Song (Ballad)

A Maid from Evripο

  • Μια κόρη από την Εύριπου ⬥ A maid from Evripo sought to set sail, she sought to make passage. She sought to make the passage to the far shore and paid a hundred Venetian sequins, a hundred gold pieces to be taken to her homeland and four hundred and four [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorErythraea, ReisdereFable Song (Ballad)

A Maid from Vrontados

(The Best-Woman Who Ended up a Bride)

  • Μια κόρη Βρονταδούσαινα ⬥ A maid from Vrontados sat weaving, her loom in full song to the shuttle’s beat when a bird flew down and perched on it. Its song was like no other bird’s, not like the swallow’s, for when it sang it sang in human voice. – Christ, [...]
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  • SongPropontisFable Song (Ballad)Table Song

A Maid Was Singing

(The Wife Scorned)

  • Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε ⬥ A maid was singing in a high-walled palace. The wind swept her voice out to sea and every ship that heard it reefed its sails. Save one love-lorn ship that knows what friendship means that neither gathering its sheets nor lowering them trimmed its sails and set [...]
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  • SongPropontisFable Song (Ballad), Immigration SongTable Song

A Maid Was Singing Longingly

  • Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε ⬥ A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace, her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward, and all the ships that heard that voice at once let go their halyards. [Save one that holds friendship most dear and knows a love-lorn [...]
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  • SongPropontisPeramosFable Song (Ballad)

A Maid Would Have Her Way

  • Κουράσιν εβουλήθηκε ⬥ A maid would go would go a-strolling and then go back again. She called her neighbours together yes, by Saint George and the young girls, too. And she went down to the shore save me, Saint George, save me they went down to the sea. They saw [...]