H Shmaia - Nana Mouskouri

Hi, does anybody have the lyrics and translation of this song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cSId91Ajs

thank you!

Title: To tragoudi tis simaias
Lyrics: Iakovo kabanellis
Music: Mano Hadjidakis
Sung by Laki Pappas
Lp: "Matomenos gamos & Paramythi choris onoma" (1965)

Well this is another strange story....

Iakovo Kabanellis, on the summer of 1958

wrote the theatrical script "Paramythi choris onoma" which is based on the fairytale called "Paramythi choris onoma" by Penelope Delta (I still ADORE all her fairytales).



In 1959 Mano Hadjidakis wrote 9 songs that were meant to act as prologues or epilogues of the 9 scenes of the theatrical script. The opening happened during November or December of 1959 but as Mano never totally repaid for those 9 songs (cause of the failure of the play) he totally forgot the melodies !


But the unknown Laki Pappas ,who was the guitar player and singer of this play, earned some money playing these 9 songs in local taverns.


Finally (some years after....), Mano met Pappas, remembered the melodies , and recorded with Pappas' voice an Lp based on "Paramythi choris onoma" and on another theatrical piece called "Matomenos gamos" (Lorca's "Blood wedding" translated by Niko Gkatsos).

You may read what Hadjidakis wrote for this story



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Link to the original recording -> http://www.esnips.com/doc/5ffb37ad-d...di-Tis-Simaias

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To tragoudi tis simaias (Flag's song)

Τώρα σημαία μου το αίμα
Now the blood will be my flag
και λάβαρο η λαβωματιά.
and the wound will be my banner.
Ριξε μου το στερνό σου βλέμμα
Throw your last glance at me
αίμα στην άδεια μου καρδιά.
(as if it's) blood in my empty heart.

Όχι ποτέ μου δεν σε δίνω στρατιώτη μου στην ξενητιά
No my soldier I'll never leave you in stranger's hands (the exact translation should be on foreign lands)
τραγούδι και χορό εγώ στήνω για σε στην ακροποταμιά.
it's for you that I sing and dance by the riverside.


Warning: In youtube's video Mouschouri's singing "αγόρι μου" (my boy) instead of "στρατιώτη μου" (my soldier).