Listen
There in the sky that you fly, my lady turtle-dove,
when from these hights you're looking down,
did you by chance see my lover, did you see the man I love,
did you see my dashing man, my lady turtle-dove?
-Oh yes, indeed, Ι saw him, Ι saw him lying on a field,
Ι saw black crows eating his flesh, devouring the man you love,
I saw white birds too flying around him.
Τρυγόνα
– ν-Αυτού ψηλά που περπατείς, τρυγόνα, τρυγόνα
και χαμηλά λογιάζεις,1 τρυγόνα μου γραμμένη
μην είδες τον ασίκη2 μου, τρυγόνα, τρυγόνα
τον αγαπητικό μου, τον άντρα το δικό μου.
– Εψές προψές τον είδαμε στον κάμπο ξαπλωμένο,
μαύρα πουλιά τον τρώγανε κι άσπρα τον τριγυρνούσαν.
1λογιάζεις: κοιτάζεις
2ασίκης: λεβέντης, αγαπημένος
Domna Samiou's comment for the song in the album (1972)
I can still remember how much it impressed the audience when I sang it for the first time in ‘Rodeo’, together with Dionysis Savvopoulos.
Pogonisios is a characteristic dance from the Pogoni province of Epirus.
Studio recording, 1972.
Based on Simon Karas' recording which belongs to the Association for the Dissemination of Greek National Music.
