Category: Work song
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Dodecanese Kalymnos Work song, Sea and sailors chanty
Exile is the greatest hardship
True, exile is the greatest hardship, the parting so upsetting,
but oh, that greeting ‘Welcome home’, oh that, Marouli, is b...
Dodecanese Kalymnos Distichs Work song, Sea and sailors chanty
Marouli (Exile is the greatest hardship)
True, exile is the greatest hardship, the parting so upsetting,
but oh, that greeting 'Welcome home', oh that, Marouli, is b...
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...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Çeşme Work song, Sea and sailors chanty
Yio Mario
Net casting a-plenty, rigging and rigging again
And Nikolis was shouting: ‘One more rope’.
The knot of the net is off to se...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Çeşme Work song, Sea and sailors chanty
Yio Mario
Praise be to God, we’ve fish a-plenty, we’ re readying the nets again,
and Nikolis would shout at us, let’s have another rop...
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