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Lyrics

There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird,
sitting on a green branch.

A white bird sitting on a green branch
grooming its plumage and its love, says,
– My summer love, if only I had you for winter, too:
in the summer for freshness, in the winter for warmth.

Translated by Michael Eleftheriou

Original Lyrics

Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται

ν-Άσπρο πουλά- ν άσπρο πουλά-
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι, ρούσα μ’, κάθεται
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται σε πράσινο κλαδάκι
ν-άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται σε πράσινο κλαδά-

Κι τα φτιρούδια του τσιμπά κι την αγάπη λέει:
Αγάπη μου καλουκαιρ’νή να σ’ είχα του χειμώνα
του καλουκαίρι για δρουσιά κι του χειμών’ για ζέστα.

Information

  • Region: Macedonia
  • Area: Chalkidiki, Ierissos
  • Categories: Love song
  • Rhythm: 7 beats
  • Dance style: Syrtos
  • Duration: 03:31

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Clarinet: Thodoris Georgopoulos
  • Constantinopolitan lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Bendir (frame drum): Kostas Meretakis
  • Informant (source of the song): Yannis Tsirigotis

Albums

  • Of nature and of love

Recording information

Studio recording, 2005.

Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Eleni Tsirigoti, Alexandra Roumelianaki, Yiorgos Tzitzos and Yannis Migdis, in 1972.

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