Region: Dodecanese
Dodecanese Rhodes Love song, Wedding song
A partridge I did tame
A partridge I did tame, through April ‘til May came,
the tamer she became, the more she did complain.
All afire deep inside...
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...
Dodecanese Patmos Carnival song, Bawdy song
An old man was approaching
An old man -yes, an old man, an old man was approaching,
an old man was approaching, his prick was hanging down–
it wasn’t ...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Andronicos and the princess
Famed Andronikos, who was born and raised in riches,
started school on the 6th of the month and could read by the 7th.
By t...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Andrónikos and his black steed
The nobles sit to eat and drink around a marble table,
a marble and a silver table, around a golden table,
and all do only ...
Dodecanese Astypalea Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Astypalea)
Χριστούγεννα Πρωτούγεννα
Dodecanese Wedding song
Come here birds
Come all you birds to make dough, help O Virgin,
now gold has merged with pearl, help O Virgin.
I make a round loaf for the...
Dodecanese Rhodes Acritic song
Constantis and the crab
Down at the barren field, near the reed beds,
a crab has become a dragon and is devouring the bravest men.
He ate Phokas’ b...
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.
...
Dodecanese Astypalea Carolling Epiphany carol, Ritual song
Epiphany carol (Astypalea)
Σήμερα είναι των Φωτών
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 Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Feasting lords eating and drinking (Andronikos and his steed)
Some lords are eating and drinking at a marble table,
a table of marble, silver and gold,
they are all eating and drinking ...
Dodecanese Patmos Carolling Epiphany carol, Ritual song
Good day brothers
Καλημέρα πάντες, ω αδελφοί
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...