Category: Carnival song
Thessaly Larissa, Tyrnavos Carnival song, Bawdy song
A braggart of a cunt
A braggart of a cunt declaimed to East and West alike
that there was not a cock at hand to come along and fuck it.
My cock,...
Thessaly Larissa, Drymos Carnival song, Bawdy song
A cunt up in the cherry-tree
A cunt, my friend, a cunt, a cunt up in the cherry-tree.
A cunt up in the cherry-tree, the cock way down below.
Five times ...
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 ...
Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Carnival song, Bawdy song
Auntie Nikolakaina
Auntie Nikolakena, you haven’t acted very wisely;
you silly bitch, you’ve sent your girl to gather sticks for kindling.
The...
Macedonia Kastoria Carnival song, Bawdy song
Five and ten priests' wives
Five and ten –now harken here– five and ten priests’ wives there were,
five and ten priests’ wives there were and nuns to th...
Macedonia Kozani Carnival song, Bawdy song
Full forty cunts encircled me
Full forty cunts bre, bre, bre, full forty cunts encircled me,
full forty cunts encircled me to gobble up my cock.
Whereon ...
Central Greece Carnival song
He's dead is Master Meat
He’s dead, o mother dear, he’s dead, he’s dead is Master Meat,
he’s dead is Master Meat, he’s dead, and Master Cheese is dyi...
Thessaly Larissa, Drymos Carnival song, Bawdy song
Here they call the fanny Yiota
Here, my friend, they call the fanny, here they call the fanny Yióta,
here they call the fanny Yióta and the pecker Panayiót...
Epirus Carnival song, Bawdy song
How do they grind the pepper
How do they grind, good shepherdess, how do they grind the pepper,
how do they grind the pepper, those diabolic monks?
With...
Central Greece Carnival song, Philosophical song
I have grown old, goddam it
– I have grown old, goddammit, friends, I have grown old and cannot now,
I have grown old and cannot now sing the songs I us...
Central Greece Carnival song
If I could be upon the shore
If I could be, if I could be, could be upon the shore at night
to light a lamp, to light a lamp, to light a lamp so I might ...
Cyclades Naxos Distichs Philosophical song, Carnival song
It is the custom every year
It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks
with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice.
S...
Dodecanese Kos, Antimacheia Carnival song
Lingeri
Text in Englich is not available. The text in French follows:
Frappe avec ta bague, ma brunette, sur le ‘linguéraki’1
pour ...
Macedonia Carnival song, Bawdy song
Now list, good man
Now list, good man, just list to me, to what I have to tell.
Just list to what I have to tell of what befell a widow,
a wre...
Macedonia Kozani Carnival song, Bawdy song
Old grandfather Rangavelas
Old grandfather1 bre, bre, bre, old grandfather Rangavélas,
old grandfather Rangavélas had an ass that limped along;
dummy ...
Thessaly Larissa, Drymos Carnival song, Bawdy song
On the final days of Carnival
On the final, bré, bré, bré, the final days of Carnival,
on the final days of Carnival, of Shrovetide abstinence from food,
...
Thessaly Larissa, Tyrnavos Carnival song, Bawdy song
On the last days of Carnival
On the last days ho, ho! on the last days of Carnival,
on the last days of Carnival the fires are truly fanned
and women ar...