Song types: Table song
Propontis Table song Fable song (ballad)
A maid was singing longingly
A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace,
her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward,
...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Vourla Table song | Distichs | Processional tune Sad and plaintive song
At dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table song Heroic song
Forty brave young lads
Forty brave lads and an old man
took up arms and dressed for war.
Slinging their muskets, the mountains light up,
buckling...
Central Greece Table song Klephtic song
Great sorrow was expressed
Great sorrow was expressed in Mesolonghi town;
for they are taking Markos to the church, my lads.
They’re taking Markos to ...
Thrace Evros, Paliouri Table song Love song
I see ships a-coming
I see ships a-coming from Constantine’s City
with four hundred maids and sixty brave lads,
and mine in there amidst them si...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table song Love song
I was far away, but now Im back
I was far away,
but now I'm back from foreign lands
with diamonds and fresh-struck gold
and silver coins for you.
– What ...
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...
Thrace Evros, Paliouri Table song Fable song (ballad)
In Constantinople I heard the news
I was in the City and heard my fairest was to wed,
that she had exchanged vows with another.
Mounting my horse, I set off h...
Peloponnese Table song Historical song
In the heart of Kalávryta
In the heart of Kalávryta, beneath the great plane tree
old Zaimis sat, three old men a-sitting.
There were three old men t...
Central Greece Table song Klephtic song
Kítsos' mother
Kitsos’ mother sat on the river bank
scolding the river.
Scolding the river and pelting it with stones.
‘River flow less, ...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Table song Historical song
Little birds of the east
Πουλάκια της Ανατολής
English translation is not available. The text in French follows:
Oiselets du levant
et rossignols du couchant,
rassemblez...
Sporades Skiathos Table song Sad and plaintive song
O black dawn, won't you break
Won’t you break, black dawn
so I can find peace, my jewel,
so I can find peace?
My eyes are close to dim…
My eyes are clo...
