Alexandrianh Felaxa

Geia sas!

Can anyone kindly provide original verses sta Ellinika & translation for old song by Roza Eskenazi? De vrisko pouthena....

Euxaristw para polu!

Dimitri

Αλεξανδριανή φελάχα
Fellah from Alexandria

Αλεξανδρινή φελάχα, πως μπερδεύτηκα,
Fellah from Alexandria, how did i get confused,
αχ με τ' αράπικα σου μάτια ερωτεύτηκα
Ah i fell in love with your black eyes
Είσαι κακούργα και δεν μπορείς,
You’re mean and you cannot,
πάψε για να με τυρρανείς,
Stop torturing me
δε λυπάσαι τι τραβώ, δεν λυπάσαι πια,
You don’t feel sad for what I’m getting through,
εσύ 'σαι τ' όνειρο μου, φελάχα μου γλυκιά
You’re my dream, my sweet fellah
Το αράπικο χορεύεις αχ... με το γιαλέλι,
You dance Arabian dances ah… with yialeli*
κι απ' το στοματάκι σου, άιντε στάζεις μέλι.
And from your little mouth, you drip honey.

* I don’t know what this word means.

Maria apo thn Makedonia...
Xairw polu!

Ti xara! I recorded this radiofwniko tragoudi sti Germania sto xrono 1974. Kai euxaristw para polu!

Me polu agaph,

dimitri

Den htan tipota. Xairomai pou h metafrash mou se voh8hse.

Filia

Giassou Dimitri kai Maria,

You dance Arabian dances ah… with yialeli*
κι απ' το στοματάκι σου, άιντε στάζεις μέλι.
And from your little mouth, you drip honey.

* I don’t know what this word means.


YIA LELI is arab and means "my night"; but it is also used for a woman instead of saying something like "my sweet"

also the word FELLAH: it means something like FARMER.

HOpe it was of interested to you;
Tahira

Thanks, Maria and Tahira, for your explanations.

I once met a Greek restaurateur named Christos. He told me, those Classical scholars framed Greece as as the cornerstone of Western civilization. But they got it all wrong, he said. If you read what our earliest writers have said, Greece is the Gateway to the East, and always has been!

It's clear that Modern Greek is loaded with Turkish, Arabic, and all sorts of exotic loan-words from the East.

dimitri