Dance Style: Syrtos
Thessaly Larissa, Drymos Carnival song, Bawdy song
A cunt up in the cherry-tree
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 ...
Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable song (ballad)
A fair maid did sing
A fair maid sang up upon a rope bridge,
but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still.
And the river spirit came to h...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable song (ballad)
A fair Trikeriotissa
A fair Trikeriotissa, a comely Trikeri girl,
is mistress of a silver loom that has an ivory heddle.
As she spooled threads ...
Central Greece Viotia, Arachova Ritual song, Fable song (ballad)
A festival is being held
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 the...
Thrace Evros, Nea Vyssa Fable song (ballad)
A mother has a son (Unholy union)
A mother has a son, the apple of her eye,
and the neighbourhood would have him,
’tis a wonder the very mountains do not cru...
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...
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...
Peloponnese Fable song (ballad)
All the castles I have seen (The castle of the beautiful maid)
All the castles I have seen, not one have I not visited
vr' amán amán, not one have I not visited,
oh maid Frankish, maiden...
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 ...
Central Greece Attiki, Megara Ritual song, Great Lent song
Carnival is ended now
Why, Carnival is ended now, and Cheese-week’s past as well
and, gracious me, the Lenten fast, the Lenten fast’s with us.
Th...
Macedonia Distichs Love song
D'you hear the water-mills
D’you hear the water-mills that pound, and how the waters roar?
We two do love each other well, so let the people clamour.
...
Eastern Aegean Chios Distichs Sea and sailors chanty, Love song
Dear mother, I am awfully tired
Dear mother, I am awfully tired of gazing out to sea, to sea,
of gazing out to sea, to sea
of asking the postman if I’ve go...
Thrace Acritic song
Digenis is dying (The death of Digenis)
Digenis is dying and the mountains are trembling,
and all the lords that heard it set out to visit him,
they set out, bring...
