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Thelo spitι kai lefta / Θ​έ​λ​ω σ​π​ί​τ​ι & λ​ε​φ​τ​ά

by Bam Band

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During the middle and post war era in Greece, for a woman to be married, the things where harsh. The groom and his family asked from the bride and her family a house (σπίτι ~ spiti) and money (λεφτά ~ lefta). People with no money but with love for each other had a really difficult situation to deal, with usually not a happy end. The song is about a man who asks form the mother of his beloved one to marry her, without asking for money or for a house. But still the mother does not want to give her daughter to the poor man that loves her.

lyrics

Tha ta pio tha gíno fési kai the n’ ártho na se vro
na sou po dyo kouventoúles ópou thélo apó kairó
na mou peis an eínai alítheia giatí ématha mikrí
pos i mána sou me léei alaniári kai bekrí

De mou lés afti i mamá sou san ti échei fantastheí
pos tha páreis trapezíti i kanéna efoplistí
tóra vre o káthe ántras tha sto pei orthá koftá
pes mou proíka pósa díneis thélo spíti kai leftá

Móno egó de sou zitáo s’ agapó o foukarás
pes mou écheis típota állo ap’ ta roúcha pou forás
kleís’ to stóma tis mamás sou mi me káneis na pnigó
vre tha meíneis eis to ráfi ákou pou sou léo egó

credits

released July 12, 2019
Lyrics by Kostas Kanoulas
Composed by Yiorgos Kamvisis
First Recording: 1939

Concept & performance by Mpam Band
guitar: Theodora Athanassiou
violin: Glafkos Smarianakis
accordion: Charis Tsalpara

Recorded & mixed by Yiorgos Pavlidis

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Bam Band Athens, Greece

Music could never be “captured”, could never stay still or be discovered once and for all. So “Bam” it hit them…

Three friends from Athens - Greece got together driven by their experimental mood.

Recovering precious traditional tunes from the middle war era and covering them in a fresh and playful way.

Rebetika songs, Mediterranean tunes...

Mixing and matching the past with today.
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