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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

Albums

  • Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)

Recording information

Studio recording, 1989.

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