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Vangelis and Irene Papas lyrics:
| 1 | 40 pallikaria | 5:14 |  |
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| 2 | Neranzoula | 5:51 | ||||||
| * | 3 | La Danse Du Feu | 6:03 | |||||
| 4 | I Kolokotronei | 3:16 | ||||||
| 5 | To potami | 6:44 | ||||||
| * | 6 | Racines | 8:47 | |||||
| 7 | Miroloi | 8:29 | ||||||
| 8 | Menousis | 6:37 | ||||||
| Total playing time | 51:24 | |||||||
* = instrumental (composed by Vangelis)
Arranged, performed and produced by Vangelis
(Greek) Lyrics: Irene papas and Arianna Stassinopoulos.
Based on traditional vocal material (about [among other things] the Greek
resistance to the Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the 19th Century).
Recorded at Nemo studios London (1978).
Copyright owned by: Spheric B.V. Holland
Lyrics transcribed from CD recording (lyrics not available on sleeve or in booklet).
EXPLANATORY NOTES
At the end of this file you can find 2 gif files with a scan of the Greek lyrics
The greek transliteration of the lyrics are not in the exact spelling of the Greek words but in their sound; therefore not the usual transliteration of Greek into Greeklish is used, but a rather arbitrary phonetic writing. The consonants are mostly pretty straightforward, the vowels have most of the problems. Here is the convention that is used:
| A,a | is pronounced lice u in RUN |
| G,g | is pronounced like y in YARD only harder; a double "gg" is like the hard g, as is the combination "gk" |
| D,d | is like th in THIS |
| E,e | is like e in TEN |
| th | (theta) is like th in THINK |
| I,i | is like "ee" in SLEEP but shorter in length |
| O,o | is like o in MORE |
| X,x | is Chi, like a Kh. |
| Ou | is pronounced like "oo" in MOON, all other combinations of vowels should be read separately. |
40 Palikaria
| Saranta palikaria apo ti Le-, mor' ap' ti Levadia pane gia na patisoune tin Trompo- mor' tin Trompolitsa Sto dromo pou pigenane geronta, vre geronta apantoun. |
-Ora kali sou gero -Kalos ta ta, kalos ta ta pedia pou pate, palikaria, pou pate ores, pou pate ore pedia -Pame gia na patisoume tin Trompo- mor' tin Trompolitsa |
NERATZOULA
| Neratzoula
fountomeni Neratzoula fountomeni pou 'ne t' anthia sou, neratzoula, pou 'ne t' anthia sou pou 'ne i poti sou emorfada pou 'n' ta kali sou, neratzoula, pou 'n' ta kali sou. Fisikse vorias ki ageras |
Fisikse vorias ki
ageras ke ta tinakse, neratzoula, ke ta tinakse Se parakalo voria mou Se parakalo voria mou fisa tapina, neratzoula, fisa tapina |
I KOLOKOTRONEI
| Ore, lampi o ilios
sta vouna lampi ke sta lagkadia -n- etsi lampi, ore lampi, ki i kleftouria ton Kolokotroneon po 'xoun t'asi, ore po 'xoun t'asimia ta polla tis asimenies pales -n- afti den ka ore afti den katadexontai ti gi na tin patisoun |
kavala pan, ore
kavala pan stin eklisia kavala proskinane kavala pe, ore kabala pern' antidoro ap' tou papa to xeri -n- afti den ka ore afti den katadexontai ti gi na tin patisoun |
(note: the -n- and the "ore" are meaningless sounds here, and the re- petitions around "ore" often split a word in the middle, as in the case of "asimia"
TO POTAMI
| Potame, tzanem potame mou, xai xai Potame, tzanem potame mou, xai xai potame, potame mou otan girizis ke varis ke varis ke kymatizis pare me, tzanem potame mou, xai xai | pare me, tzanem potame mou, xai xai pare me, pare me sta kimata sou sta klothogirismata sou Potame, tzanem potame mou, xai xai Potame, tzanem potame mou, xai xai |
MIROLOI
| -Aspri varkoula tou
psara giati ise stolismeni? -I mana tou, I mana tou, me stolise sti mavri gis me stelnei -Mi me skepazis, ourane mi me plakonis xoma giati ego, giati ego, de xarika ta niata mou akoma |
-Pios ouranos pia thalasa pia vrisi de tholoni? Pia mana xa-, pia mana xanei to pedi ki lipi den ti lioni pia mana xani to pedi ki o ponos den ti lioni |
(Note: "Lipi" means sorrow, "Ponos" means pain,
so the several repetitions at the end say the same thing with different word,
hence my omission in the English)
MENOUSIS
| O Menousis, o
Mpirmpilis ki o Memet agas sto krasopoulo pigenan gia na fan na pioun. Ki pou trogan ki pou pinan ki pou glentagan kapios epiase kouventa gia tis omorfes. -Omorfi gineka pou' xis, vre Memet aga |
ke tis zitisa
filaki ke mou to' dose. O Menousis, methismenos, - Siko, papia m', |
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