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Farewell Holy One
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Lyrics
In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla.
The loveliest of all the girls is she who's dressed in black.
It was nothing but a dream and we've forgotten it.
Health to you, o Holy One, we two have talked at length.
In Galatá I'll drink some wine, in Péra I'll get tight.
Yedí Koulé is home to her with whom I'll fall in love.
Yedí Koulé and Tharapiá, Tatávla and Nichóri,
it's these four villages alone adorn the ancient City.
Translated by John Leatham
Original Lyrics
Έχε γεια Παναγιά
Στο Γαλατά ψιλή βροχή και στα Tαταύλα μπόρα
βασίλισσα των κοριτσιών είναι η μαυροφόρα.
Έχε γεια Παναγιά, τα μιλήσαμε
όνειρο ήτανε, τα λησμονήσαμε.
Στο Γαλατά θα πιώ κρασί στο Πέρα θα μεθύσω
και μες απ’ το Γεντί Kουλέ κοπέλα θ’ αγαπήσω.
Γεντί Kουλέ και Θαραπιά, Tαταύλα και Nιχώρι
αυτά τα τέσσερα χωριά ’μορφαίνουνε την Πόλη.
Information
- Region: Constantinople
- Type: Distichs
- Categories: Love song
- Rhythm: 2 beats
- Dance style: Hassapikos (fast)
- Duration: 02:40
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Violin: Yiorgos Koros
- Kanun: Nikos Stefanidis
- Lute: Stavros Adrianos
- Goblet drum: Mathios Balabanis
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Recording information
Studio recording, 1974.
Domna Samiou learned it in Athens, sung by the Constantinopolitan Achilles Zaphiropoulos, in 1970.