Category: Sea and sailors chanty
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Sea and sailors chanty, Lament
A sailor-lads a-dying
I heard the shouting and the cries, they filled the Cyprus straits.
I thought they must be slaughtering bulls or taming some...
Central Greece Euboea, Gymno Easter song, Sea and sailors chanty | Ritual song
All attend at church
All attend –for sake of Christ– all attend at church
to exclaim that ‘Christ is Risen!’ and to hear the Word.
As for me, th...
Dodecanese Sea and sailors chanty
Couplets about the sea
The sea is humble and resigned, the wind disturbs its calm,
a mother bears and rears her child, a stranger will embrace it.
...
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...
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...
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 ...
Dodecanese Distichs Sea and sailors chanty, Lampoon
I sold my boat
In Saloniki I sold my boat
but when I got home to Chios, I didn’t have a groat.
Heave ho once, man the sails
Heave ho twic...
Eastern Aegean Chios Sea and sailors chanty
I want to sail away
I would sail away I would, eri pali
in Attaleia’s waters yea, eri pali,
with the vessels from Psara,
who have sailors true...
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...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Sea and sailors chanty
I went aboard a boat
I went aboard a boat but newly built,
aboard a boat but newly built, and landed at St George.
I sought the seaman, strong a...
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...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and sailors chanty, Foreign lands' song
I wish to climb a mountain height
I wish to climb, I wish to climb, to climb a mountain height
Roidou, sweet Roidou, dear, to breast a marble height.
Oh, gat...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Sea and sailors chanty, Lampoon
Kaklamaniko
The dance is danced by Kaklamans, a pumpkin serves as drum1.
In Trikeri’s old neighbourhood the Kaklamans were dancing.
The...
Eastern Aegean Chios Distichs Sea and sailors chanty, Love song
Little ship, where are you going
Little ship, where are you going shore to shore, come out so I can see you
You’ve cast a spell on me
and I am mad about you...
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...
Peloponnese Sea and sailors chanty
Off Tsirigo
Between Tsirigo and Cape Maleas, Virgin Mother,
a ship is fighting for its life with all its cargo, too.
Wave-buffeted and ...
Dodecanese Nisyros Sea and sailors chanty
Oh yes, indeed did Boreas
Oh yes, indeed did Boreas, Master North Wind, truly wish,
Master North Wind, truly wish indeed to blow with gale force stren...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Sea and sailors chanty, Lampoon
Our fishing-boat a battered hulk
Our fishing-boat a battered hulk, we cobbled it together,
we patched it up a thousand times, it stayed a ragged sight.
Our ...