Samiotissa
- Tradition
- Greek folk songs
- Date
- Traditional
- Language
- Greek
- Country
The source
Samiotissa, Samiotissa, pote tha pas sti Samo?
Roda tha rixo sto yialo, Samiotissa, yia na'rtho na se paro.
Ke me ti varka pou tha pas, griza tha pania tha valo
Malamatenia to koumbia, Samiotissa, yia na'rtho na se paro.
Samiotissa me tis elies, ke me ta mavra matia
Mou ka'nes tin kardoula mou, Samiotissa, saranta dio komatia.
Samiotissa, Samiotissa, pote tha pas sti Samo?
Roda tha rixo sto yialo, Samiotissa, yia na'rtho na se paro.
Commentary
Dr. Ruxandra RouxHead of Literary Research & Development
A traditional Greek folk song, with no known author, named for a woman from Samos, a Greek island in the eastern Aegean. The text on this page is in transliteration, so you can sing it even if you do not read Greek.
A love song in one question: Samiotissa, when will you go to Samos? He will throw roses on the shore, hoist grey sails and come to take her. She has olives and black eyes, and she has turned his heart into forty-two pieces. Not forty, not fifty: forty-two. That is how you know he means it. The island is the real subject. Everything he loves is on it: the sea, the olives, the girl.
Songs
The song made from Samiotissa.
