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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

Albums

  • Farewell Holy One

Notes

YouTube  Watch the song by Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin, violin (1977)
YouTube  Watch the song by Domna Samiou from a concert in Sydney (1984)

 

Recording information

Studio recording, 1974.

Domna Samiou learned it in Athens, sung by the Constantinopolitan Achilles Zaphiropoulos, in 1970.

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