Rhythm: Free rythm
Crete Chania, Lakkoi Fable song (ballad)
A maid bidding farewell (Spouses recognized on the emigrant's return)
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.
...
Propontis Fable song (ballad)
A maid was singing (The wife scorned)
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 sai...
Propontis Table song Fable song (ballad)
A maid was singing longingly
A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace,
her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward,
...
Epirus Klephtic song
All the captains' women
All the captains’ women went
and bowed down before Ali Pasha, before the vezir,
but Leni, Bótsaris’ Leni, will not bow her ...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Andrónikos and his black steed
The nobles sit to eat and drink around a marble table,
a marble and a silver table, around a golden table,
and all do only ...
Crete Cretan Rizitiko Acritic song
Charon and the brave men (The death of Digenis)
My friends, what happened to all the brave men in the world?
They’re not on the mountains and they’re not in the passes.
Th...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Feasting lords eating and drinking (Andronikos and his steed)
Some lords are eating and drinking at a marble table,
a table of marble, silver and gold,
they are all eating and drinking ...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table song Heroic song
Forty brave young lads
Forty brave lads and an old man
took up arms and dressed for war.
Slinging their muskets, the mountains light up,
buckling...
Macedonia Grevena, Sarakina Carolling Lazarus Saturday carol, Ritual song
Good women bearing palms
Lazarus Saturday carol
Come, Holy Virgin, come along and see these women bearing palms,
good women bearing palms, good souls, bend down a little wa...
Crete Cretan Rizitiko Historical song
Great joy across the land
Great joy across the land, great joy in every village
and all in the best, the best of spirits
save Rhodes, poor ill-fated ...
Central Greece Table song Klephtic song
Great sorrow was expressed
Great sorrow was expressed in Mesolonghi town;
for they are taking Markos to the church, my lads.
They’re taking Markos to ...
Crete Chania, Asi Gonia Cretan Rizitiko Love song
I dreamed of it
Όνειρο το ’δα η λυγερή
English translation is not available. The original text in French follows:
– Ce que j'ai vu en rêve, mon roseau, explique-le...
Crete Cretan Rizitiko Acritic song
I saw some black smoke
I saw some black smoke rise up out of the reeds;
The reeds are numberless and a monster hides in them.
Three huntsmen have ...
Thrace Evros, Paliouri Table song Love song
I see ships a-coming
I see ships a-coming from Constantine’s City
with four hundred maids and sixty brave lads,
and mine in there amidst them si...