Region: Propontis
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Propontis Nicomedia Nursery song
A little seedling
A little seedling
a seedling, a little seedling
sprouts forth and grows
to give us fruit and flowers.
A little water, jus...
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,
...
Propontis Peramos Fable song (ballad)
A maid would have her way
A maid would go
would go a-strolling
and then go back again.
She called her neighbours together
yes, by Saint George
and...
Propontis Nicomedia, Katirli Fable song (ballad)
A prince is to be wed (Evil in-laws)
A prince is to be wed
to a dark-eyed bride whose folk sought refuge here.
His bride-to-be’s from uprooted stock,
little re...
Propontis Roda Fable song (ballad)
As long as the shore (The maid slain by her brothers)
As long as the shore,
as long as the shore and as wide as the sea,
that’s the span of the yarn
a maid had laid out in her ...
Propontis Marmara Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Propontis)
Χριστούγεννα Πρωτούγεννα
Propontis Acritic song
Costantis the only son
Kostantis the only son, young and cosseted,
his mother’s only son, her precious darling.
She’d scrub him, comb his hair and...
Propontis Mudania Fable song (ballad)
Dawn glowed in the East (Spouses recognized on the emigrant's return)
The sun rose in the East and day broke in the West,
the young man led his black mount to water.
All along the way, he calle...
Propontis Marmara Nursery song, Escalating song
Dili dili
Dili, dili, dili, dili the lamp shone
as the maid embroidered her kerchief.
The rat went and nicked the wick
from the lamp...
Propontis Sea and sailors chanty
I want to savour all the months
I want to savour all the months, I want to know them all,
but oh , not March, I can’t abide the dreadful month of March.
Th...
Propontis Sea and sailors chanty
I wish for all the months in turn
I wish for all the months in turn, await them all with longing,
but not, o not, the month of March when folks embark on trav...
Propontis Marmara Love song
Karsilamas dance from Marmara
May this Bállos last, last until morning
that the girls may dance with their mates!
Ah, my barber boy,
come, embrace my ne...
Propontis Historical song, National legends and laments
Old nun a-cooking
A nun was frying fish and a voice,
a shrill high voice, kept telling her again and again:
– Stop cooking, old maid,
and Co...
Propontis Palatia Fable song (ballad)
On Saint George's eve
On Saint George’s eve, as Saint George’s day was ending,
a princess was rigging a solid gold frigate
with sails of pure sil...
Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Distichs Love song
Roumbalia - carnation
Who has seen a love-sick youth and a thief of love?
Roumbalia1, carnation,
birds circle around you.
He wakes up with sighs...
Propontis Marmara Work song, Sea and sailors chanty
Selim
Our boat is rigged, élessa-yialéssa,
and goes to cast nets, elessa-yialessa.
Élli, yiamóli, yiássa, íssa, hó!
Vré háide, v...