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Song title Den Tragoudw Para Giati Magapises
Composer Dimitris Papadimitriou / Maria Polidouri
About

The only reason I sing is because you loved me, the only reason I was born is because you loved me.

Country

Greece

Sung by Nalyssa Green
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title Tha Pio Apopse To Feggari (Tonight I'll drink the Moon)
Composer Lefteris Papadopoulos
About

A man who loves a woman who's in love with someone else. He wants to "drink the moon" and kill himself, so that she regrets that she left him.

Lyrics:
Tonight I'll drink the moon
and I'll get drunk, and I'll say:
Since you're hunting for someone else 
throw a knife so I can cut myself

And when the knife cuts through me
regretful, you'll tell me
Take the tear of the moon,
from its blood, wash yourself 

And I, I will take the moon 
and pin it to your hair 
so that as we lay down together  
I'll have the moon in my arms

And when we return 
again to the old places 
think of how beautiful you'll look
with the moon in your hair

Country

Greece

Sung by Alexia Liakounakou
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title Aksion Estin
Composer Michael Chantziathanasiou
About

This byzantine song is a praise of love for the Holy Virgin Mary. How marvellous & glorious she is.

Country

Greece

Sung by Dimitris Marlagkoutsos
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title Asherombazo (Gathering the hay and putting it away)
Composer Medieval folk song from Cyprus
About

After the men finished their early daily work, they walked through the village and sung to their secret loved ones. To please wake up and look into their eyes and to allow their bodies to rest in their arms.

Country

Greece

Sung by Kika Georgiou
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title Aroma
Composer Traditional folk song from Paros
About

deep and blanket love

Country

Greece

Sung by Christina Maxouri
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title O  Girismos (The Return)
Composer G. Papaioannou
About

the expectation after a separation

Country

Greece

Sung by Christina Maxouri
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title Me Ta Matia Kleista (With Eyes Shut)
Composer Kalatzopoulos
About

Nobody is going to be able to hurt me the way you do
And after we said goodbye, with tears dry
I left the windows closed all day long
I'm never gonna leave you, you said
I live in my dreams like before
But here, I walk into your sleep
And you kiss me in your dreams again
And I am hugging you with eyes shut
How in the dark sorrow gives birth to joy
Joy to him who now loves you
Dawn touches your hair...

Nobody will be able to love you the way you've loved me, you said...

Country

Greece

Sung by Evie Kourtides
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title H Elli
Composer Traditional Folk Song
About

A Christian woman who left her husband and children to live with a Muslim man.

Country

Greece

Sung by Evie Kourtides
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title Ti Einai Auto Pou Lene Agapi
Composer Takis Morakis
About

What is this thing what we call love, that secretly guides our hearts. Anyone who has ever felt it always misses it.

Country

Greece

Sung by Idra Kayne
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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Song title The Little Duck
Composer Nicolas Asimos
About

I don't care if you come here and don't speak to me. Maybe you will come sometime but I will be dead and buried.

Country

Greece

Sung by Lena Papatheodoru
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Athens, Greece, 2012
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