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The wretched mother kneaded dough
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Lyrics
The wretched mother kneaded dough: her sailor son required rusks.
She kneaded dough, the wretched one, and wept and chanted dirges.
My mother to the oven spoke, gave orders to the oven:
- O oven, bake this loaf right well and brown the crust all golden,
my son is off to distant lands....
Translated by John Leatham
Original Lyrics
Του ναύτη η μάνα
Tου ναύτη, η δόλια, η μάνα ζύμωνε το γιο της παξιμάδι
και με τα δάκρυα, η δόλια, ζύμωνε και με τα μοιριολόγια.
Tο φούρνο λέει, μάνα μ’, παρήγγελε, το φούρνο παραγγέλει:
- Φούρνε, καλά να ψήσεις το ψωμί, καλά να το ροδίσεις,
γιατί ο γιός μου θα ξενιτευτεί.
Information
- Region: Macedonia
- Categories: Foreign lands' song
- Rhythm: 7 beats
- Dance style: Syrtos
- Duration: 03:14
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Clarinet: Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas
- Violin: Ilias Soukas
- Lute: Kostas Philippidis
- Goblet drum: Yiorgos Gevgelis
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Recording information
Studio recording, 1989.
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