{"id":82,"date":"2020-05-08T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/greekmod-300\/?p=82"},"modified":"2020-12-04T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:31:20","slug":"collection-of-songs-by-mikis-theodorakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/greekmod-300\/2020\/05\/08\/collection-of-songs-by-mikis-theodorakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection of Songs by Mikis Theodorakis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Song of Songs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyrics: Iakovos Kambanellis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Music: Mikis Theodorakis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look how beautiful my beloved is<\/span><\/p>\n

Wearing her everyday dress<\/span><\/p>\n

And a small comb in her hair.<\/span><\/p>\n

No one knew how beautiful she really was.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Young women of Auschwitz,<\/span><\/p>\n

Dauchau\u2019s young women<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you not seen my beloved?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We saw her starting a long journey<\/span><\/p>\n

No longer was she wearing her dress<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor the small comb in her hair.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Look how beautiful my beloved is,<\/span><\/p>\n

So pampered by her mother<\/span><\/p>\n

And her brother\u2019s sweet kisses.<\/span><\/p>\n

No one knew how beautiful she really was.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Women of Mauthausen,<\/span><\/p>\n

Women of Belsen,<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you not seen my beloved?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We saw her at the freezing plaza<\/span><\/p>\n

With a number on her snow white arm,<\/span><\/p>\n

And a yellow star laid on her heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Look how beautiful my beloved is,<\/span><\/p>\n

So pampered by her mother<\/span><\/p>\n

And her brother\u2019s sweet kisses.<\/span><\/p>\n

No one knew how beautiful she really was.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Denial<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyrics: George Seferis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Music: Mikis Theodorakis<\/strong><\/p>\n

There at the hidden coast<\/span><\/p>\n

As white as a dove<\/span><\/p>\n

We thirsted in the afternoon<\/span><\/p>\n

But the water was salt.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

On top of the golden sand<\/span><\/p>\n

We wrote her lovely name<\/span><\/p>\n

The wind blew so wonderfully<\/span><\/p>\n

And our words were gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

With what heart, with what breathe,<\/span><\/p>\n

What longing and what passion<\/span><\/p>\n

We lived our lives.\u00a0 Wrong!<\/span><\/p>\n

So we changed how we lived.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Old Streets<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyrics: Manolis Anagnostakis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Music: Mikis Theodorakis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Old streets, that I had loved, and I had hated endlessly<\/span><\/p>\n

I would walk underneath the shadows of those houses\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During nights of my return, inescapable in the dead city<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My insignificant existence I find at every corner,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me meet you again sometime, oh spirit lost from my passion and I<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Forgotten and untamed, I wander holding a trembling spark in my sweating palms<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And so I wandered throughout the night, without knowing anyone<\/span><\/p>\n

And no one knew me, and no one knew me or recognized me at all<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is raining in the poor neighborhood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyrics: Tasos Livaditis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Music: Mikis Theodorakis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The small and sunless alleys<\/span><\/p>\n

And my lowly neighborhood,<\/span><\/p>\n

Raining, down in those poor places<\/span><\/p>\n

Raining, also in my heart<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Oh you lying, unfair world<\/span><\/p>\n

You have lit a fire in my heart<\/span><\/p>\n

You are small and cannot contain<\/span><\/p>\n

My sigh, my very deep sigh<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The countless misfortunes,<\/span><\/p>\n

The world can give us no more<\/span><\/p>\n

My days pass full of hardship<\/span><\/p>\n

Like the droplets of the rain<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Antonis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyrics: Iakovos Kambanellis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Music: Mikis Theodorakis<\/strong><\/p>\n

There in the broad steps<\/span><\/p>\n

The steps stained with tears<\/span><\/p>\n

There in the deep Wiener Graben<\/span><\/p>\n

The deep quarry of mourning<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Where the Jews and the rebels walk<\/span><\/p>\n

Where the Jews and the rebels fall<\/span><\/p>\n

Rocks they carry on their backs<\/span><\/p>\n

Rocks that promise them death.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There Antonis hears a voice<\/span><\/p>\n

A voice, a voice he hears<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh comrade, oh comrade<\/span><\/p>\n

Help me to go up the steps.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But there in the broad steps<\/span><\/p>\n

There in the steps of tears<\/span><\/p>\n

That kind of help is such a curse<\/span><\/p>\n

That kind of help is peril.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Jew falls to the ground<\/span><\/p>\n

And his blood soaks the steps<\/span><\/p>\n

And you, proud man come here<\/span><\/p>\n

Carry two loads of stones.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Two I will take, and even three<\/span><\/p>\n

Me, they call me Antoni<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re a man, come here<\/span><\/p>\n

Down to this marble arena.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

– Translated by Christina Missler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Song of Songs Lyrics: Iakovos Kambanellis Music: Mikis Theodorakis Look how beautiful my beloved is Wearing her everyday dress And a small comb in her hair. No one knew how beautiful she really was.   Young women of Auschwitz, Dauchau\u2019s young women Have you not seen my beloved?   We saw her starting a long … <\/p>\n

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