Category: Foreign lands' song
Pontus Foreign lands' song, Wedding song
A cretan ship
- A Cretan ship, nor large nor small,
just two and forty cubits long,
brought me to strange and unknown lands.
- O alien, ...
Peloponnese Foreign lands' song
All turn their gaze upon the sun
All turn their gaze upon the sun that's on the point of setting,
and yet the girl who's sore at heart is looking out to seaw...
Epirus Polyphonic Foreign lands' song
Forgetful, I am truly glad
Forgetful I am truly glad, but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
– Get up...
Epirus Polyphonic Foreign lands' song
Forgetful, I am truly glad
Forgetful I am truly glad, but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
– Get up...
Epirus Polyphonic Foreign lands' song
Happy when I forget, sad when I remember
Forgetful I am truly glad, but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
– Get up...
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...
Thrace Table song Foreign lands' song
I would I were a bird
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...
Thrace Table song Foreign lands' song
I would I were a bird
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...
Epirus Foreign lands' song
John dear your handkerchif
Your kerchief, Yanni, dearest love, why is it soiled and dirty?
Come, Yanno, come, Yannaki dear,
come now my handsome fello...
Central Greece Foreign lands' song
My emigrated bird
Η ξενιτιά - Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί
My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,
...
Epirus Pogoni Foreign lands' song
My emigrated bird
My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,
...
Epirus Pogoni Foreign lands' song
My emigrated bird
My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,
...
Epirus Pogoni Foreign lands' song
My love-bird far away from home (My emigrated bird)
My love-bird far away from home, my love who’s broken-hearted,
- o, absent love of mine,
those foreign lands greet you with...
Dodecanese Distichs Foreign lands' song
My precious
Alas, my precious,
my fragrant flower now brings joy to a foreign land,
gently, gently and quietly.
Alack, 'twas I sent h...
Dodecanese Rhodes Distichs Foreign lands' song
Ribbon interwined
I had a ribbon at the weaver’s and felt at the tailor’s,
and a loved one in a foreign land,
and him I’m waiting for,
oh, a...