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Lyrics

The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.

Impossible, my duck, impossible,
you are doing your best to kill me.

I told you not to tempt me and leave me in my misery
You have taken my reason from my head.

Come, let us go where you say,
there, where birds build their nests.

Translated by Mania Seferiades

Original Lyrics

Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια

Ολμάζ

Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια τρέχει αθάνατο νερό, σεβντίμ1 αμάν
και σου γύρεψα λιγάκι και δε μου ’δωσες να πιω.

Ολμάζ2 πιπίνι3 μου, ολμάζ
να με πεθάνεις πολεμάς.

Είπα σου μη με πειράζεις κι άσε με στο χάλι μου, σεβντίμ, αμάν
και το νου μου τον επήρες από το κεφάλι μου.

Έλα να πάμ’ εκεί που λες
που κάνουν τα πουλιά φωλιές.


1σεβντίμ: αγάπησα (από το τουρκικό sevdim)
2ολμάζ: δε γίνεται (από το τουρκικό olmaz)
3πιπίνι: πιτσούνι, όμορφη κοπέλα

Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Area: Erythrea, Meli
  • Type: Distichs
  • Categories: Love song
  • Rhythm: 9 beats
  • Dance style: Antikristos
  • Duration: 03:48

Collaborators

  • Singer: Domna Samiou
  • Clarinet: Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas
  • Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
  • Kanun: Agnes Agopian
  • Oud: Joanna Andrews
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Goblet drum: Andreas Pappas
  • Informant (source of the song): Yannis Zikas

Albums

  • Songs of Asia Minor 2
  • Songs οf Asia Minor

Notes

Τραγούδι 9σημο (2-2-2-3) που χορεύεται σαν αντικριστός χορός γνωστός και με την ονομασία «ολμάζ».


YouTube  Watch a different version of the song

 

Recording information

Studio recording, 1991.

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