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Lyrics

I see some ships approaching port, how beautiful they seem to me,
ships that sail across the waters,
rending my faint heart asunder.

The one sails on a south wind, help, o Christ and Holy Mary,
another on a north wind, white sails filled and fully stretched.
The third, the smallest of them all, is by far the loveliest;
my beloved’s aboard that vessel and he’s shouting, ‘Slack away there’
‘I’ve slacked away, my love, slacked away.
You were young and I seduced you.
I’ve slacked away and changed my tack, love is fickle, fancy free.’

Translated by John Leatham

Original Lyrics

Βλέπω καράβια κι έρχονται

Βλέπω καράβια κι έρχονται, ωραία που μου φαίνονται
καραβάκια π’ αρμενίζουν
την καρδούλα μου ραγίζουν.

Το ’να αρμενίζει με νοτιά, βόηθα, Χριστέ και Παναγιά
τ’ άλλο με τραμουντάνα, άσπρη μου παχιά σουλτάνα.
Το τρίτο το μικρότερο κ’ απ’ όλα εμορφότερο
κείνο κάνει εγιαλέσα, κ’ έχει το πουλί μου μέσα.
Έλεσα, μάτια μ’, έλεσα, μικρή ’σουν και σε γέλασα
έλεσα και τιραμόλα, η αγάπη ’ναι μαργιόλα.

Information

  • Region: Sporades
  • Area: Skiathos
  • Categories: Love song
  • Rhythm: 2 beats
  • Dance style: Local dance
  • Duration: 02:54

Collaborators

  • Singer: Yiorgos Papadopoulos
  • Clarinet: Thanassis Samolados
  • Violin: Maria Deligianni
  • Lute: Panagiota Dagia
  • Informant (source of the song): Yannis Parisis

Albums

  • Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

Notes

Local dance, danced during the Carnival period called “apokriatikos”.


YouTube  Watch a different version of the song

 

Recording information

Live recording from the concert The known and unknown Domna at the Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, in 29/10/1998.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Skiathos, sung by Yannis Parisis and Diamantis Myrodis, in 1975.

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