Rhythm: 7 beats
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, ...
Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable song (ballad)
A fair maid did sing
A fair maid sang up upon a rope bridge,
but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still.
And the river spirit came to h...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable song (ballad)
A fair Trikeriotissa
A fair Trikeriotissa, a comely Trikeri girl,
is mistress of a silver loom that has an ivory heddle.
As she spooled threads ...
Peloponnese Klephtic song
A maid decided
A maid decided to join the klephts
and set fire, vr’ amán och amán,
she set fire to her loom.
She set fire to her loom, to...
Thrace Evros, Nea Vyssa Fable song (ballad)
A mother has a son (Unholy union)
A mother has a son, the apple of her eye,
and the neighbourhood would have him,
’tis a wonder the very mountains do not cru...
Propontis Nicomedia, Katirli Fable song (ballad)
A prince is to be wed (Evil in-laws)
A prince is to be wed
to a dark-eyed bride whose folk sought refuge here.
His bride-to-be’s from uprooted stock,
little re...
Macedonia Kozani, Eani Carolling Lazarus Saturday carol, Ritual song
A teacher seated himself down
Lazarus Saturday carol
A teacher seated himself down upon a block of marble
and started writing with his pen, and knocked his ink-well over,
the i...
Central Greece Attiki Processional tune | Distichs Love song, Local song
A walk in Sergiani
Σεργιάνι 'ναι στη Σεργιανή
Peloponnese Love song
All the birds, two by two
All the birds, amàn amàn,
the birds nest two by two,
all the birds two by two,
the swallow with his mate.
The lonesome ni...
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...
Thessaly Magnesia, Keramidi Historical song, National legends and laments
Amidst three Seas
Ανάμεσα τρεις θάλασσες
Peloponnese Processional tune Love song
Beam, dear moon
– Come on beam, dear moon,
shine, moon dear, and light the way to my love.
Beam high and low, for it’s muddy and wet;
beam...
Thrace Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Thrace)
Χριστός γιννιέται, χαρά στουν κόσμου
Peloponnese Love song
Come out, my sun, come out
Come out, my sun, come out,
come out, my sun, come out just a little.
Come out, my sun, come out just a little
so we can t...
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.
...
Macedonia Distichs Love song
D'you hear the water-mills
D’you hear the water-mills that pound, and how the waters roar?
We two do love each other well, so let the people clamour.
...
