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Lyrics

It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one,
the greatest of all feasts,
you fair-haired ones, you fair-haired ones with heavy plaits.

I climbed a height and caught a view of Alexis’ palaces.
So I could see his daughters and what they wore,
what they were dressed in.
One wore a dress of red another one of blue.
The third and youngest was wearing Easter red.

Translated by John Leatham

Original Lyrics

Τώρα τις Πασχαλιόημιρις

Τώρα τις Πασχαλιό-νο-ημιρις, δεντρουλάκι μου, δεντρουλάκι μου
νερ, π’ όλα, νερ, π’ όλα τρανές γιουρτάδις
σεις ξανθιές, σεις ξανθιές φαρδουπλιγμένις1.

Ανέβηκα κι αγνάντιψα τ’ Αλέξη τα σαράγια.
Να δγιω τις θυγατέρις του τι ντύνουν τι φορούνι.
Η μια φουράει τα κόκκινα κι η γι-άλλη τα γαλάζια.
Η τρίτη η μικρότιρη φουράει τα μπουχασένια2.


1φαρδουπλιγμένις: κοτσίδες πλεγμένες φαρδιά
2μπουχασένια: έτσι ονομάζουν ένα φόρεμα, σε κοκκινωπό χρώμα, που το φορούσαν το Πάσχα

Information

  • Region: Thrace
  • Area: Evros, Karoti
  • Categories: Easter song, Ritual song
  • Rhythm: 2 beats
  • Dance style: Xesyrtos
  • Duration: 02:48

Collaborators

  • Singer: Lambriana Doitsidi, Theopoula Doitsidi
  • Clarinet: Nikos Philippidis
  • Violin: Yiorgos Marinakis
  • Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Goblet drum: Yiorgos Gevgelis

Albums

  • Easter Songs

Notes

After the Second Resurrection on Easter morning the inhabitants of Karoti gather in the village centre where young girls inaugurate the festivity with ‘modest’ and xysyrtoi (slow syrtόs) dances, such as this one. Zoe Margari (1998)

Translated by John Leatham

Recording information

The song was recorded in a studio, in 1997.

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