Region: Asia Minor
Asia Minor Erythrea, Meli Fable song (ballad)
A little shorty (Meli, Erythraia) (A brother and a sister recognize each other)
A little shorty, a short little man,
aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife
and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, wa...
Asia Minor Fable song (ballad)
A maid from Evripο
A maid from Evripo sought to set sail,
she sought to make passage.
She sought to make the passage to the far shore
and pai...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Reisdere Fable song (ballad)
A maid from Vrontados (The best-woman who ended up a bride)
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.
It...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Reisdere Distichs Love song
Again they entered in the dance
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
Asia Minor Distichs Love song
Arabas (A horse-cart is passing by)
A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust,
pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust.
A horse-cart's pas...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Vourla Distichs | Processional tune | Table song Sad and plaintive song
At dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Alatsata Distichs Love song
Attaris
I vowed to the Holy Virgin
not to sing again.
Attaris!
But for your sake
I will break the vow.
Four!
Once again four bl...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Alatsata Distichs Love song
Ballos from Alatsata
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Meli Distichs Love song
Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you,
from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria,
to be of noble bi...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Distichs Love song
Do not nurture any doubts
Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you.
I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me.
You are a garden...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Meli Carolling Epiphany carol, Ritual song
Epiphany carol (Asia Minor)
Σήμερα είναι των Φωτών
Asia Minor Kato Panagia Distichs Sea and sailors chanty, Love song
Fishermen, have you any fish
– Hey fishermen, have you any fish,
any fish or squid or lobsters?
– We’ve got sardines all golden,
as golden as the maid ...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Meli Distichs Love song
For a whole seven weeks...
For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you;
because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin.
I can...
Asia Minor Fable song (ballad)
Forty stonemasons
A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers
were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta.
The whol...