Rhythm: 9 beats
Pontus Acritic song
Akritas goes hunting (The death of Digenis)
Out hunting, on the way to the hunting grounds,
Akritas met Charon at a crossroads.
– Charon, what’ve you got against me th...
Pontus Fable song (ballad)
Amarandos goes to war
Amarandos has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed b...
Pontus Acritic song
An eagle soared
An eagle soared high in the sky, high in the heavens
with its bloody red jaws and its soot black crown
and clutching a brav...
Asia Minor Distichs Love song
Arabas (A horse-cart is passing by)
A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust,
pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust.
A horse-cart's pas...
Pontus Acritic song
As Akritas was ploughing (The abduction of Akritas’ wife)
As Akritas was ploughing near the river,
back and forth he went and ploughed five furrows a day,
back and forth he went and...
Pontus Fable song (ballad)
At Trichas’ bridge
At the bridge, at the bridge,
at Trichas’ bridge.
A thousand builders hard at work,
and ten thousand apprentices.
They’d ...
Pontus Acritic song
Digenes rescues his beloved
Akritas laboured down by the river,
Coming and going he laboured, tracing five furrows,
Coming and going he sowed nine meas...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Meli Distichs Love song
Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you,
from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria,
to be of noble bi...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Distichs Love song
Do not nurture any doubts
Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you.
I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me.
You are a garden...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love song
Down at Aghia Marini
Down at Aghia Marini, at Virgin Mary's monastery
a twelve-year-old girl, joined the local nunnery.
She doesn't cross her fi...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love song
Down at Aghia Marini
Down at Aghia Marini, at Virgin Mary's monastery
a twelve-year-old girl, joined the local nunnery.
She doesn't cross her fi...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable song (ballad)
Down on the sandy beach
Down on the sandy beach, down by the water’s edge,
a girl was laundering her silver-threaded dress.
After rinsing it, she l...
Macedonia Grevena, Sarakina Carolling Lazarus Saturday carol, Ritual song
Good women bearing palms
Lazarus Saturday carol
Come, Holy Virgin, come along and see these women bearing palms,
good women bearing palms, good souls, bend down a little wa...
Pontus Philosophical song
If I die, bury me
If I die, bury me on a tall mountain
so I can hear the shepherd’s whistle
and the pipe’s sweet sound,
so I can hear the sh...
Asia Minor Love song
Kanelóriza
Down by the distance coast, down by the sandy shore
is the girl - is the girl I love.
The girl I love with hair so fair and...