Italian: "passatempo"= killtime
Tonight i came across to this great greek rebetiko-folk song, performed by Athena Lampiri on YouTube,
and i thought, it would be nice to share with other people this passionate performance.
The title of the song is: " o pasatempos" (ο πασατέμπος) , translated as Sunflower seeds.
enjoy :)
A few information about this song:
Composer: Manolis Chiotis (Μανώλης Χιώτης) one of the gratest bouzouki players ever and a great music composer .
Lyrics: Giorgos Giannakopoulos (Γιώργος Γιαννακόπουλος)
in transalation:
The things you say doesn't count anymore.
Your fairy tales, I've grown up to now
And I understood that I was for you,an
"easy snack" to kill your time.
Every kiss you give me it tastes bitter,
And you can not sweeten my pain.
You come with me little Babe, just cause
you want to tease someone else.
So leave if you want to go elsewhere,
but quit the mummurs and cries and "hairs"(meaning the worthless talking).
And when you meet again with the dude you love,
Do not tell him you had me for an "easy snack" to kill your time.
and the phonetics (for those who want to sing along):
Aftá pou les egó t’ akoúo veresé
Ta paramýthia sou t’ anthístika pia tóra
Kai to katálava pos ímouna gia se
O pasatémpos sou gia na pernás tin óra
Káthe sou fílima to vrísko pio pikró
Kai ton kaimó mou den boreís na ton glykáneis
Mazí mou érchesai bampésiko mikró
Giatí gyréveis kón'xes s’ állone na káneis
Fýge loipón afoú to thes alloú na pas
Ás’ tis mourmoúres kai tis klápses kai tis tríches
Ki ótan tha smíxeis me ton mánka p’ agapás
Na min tou peis óti gia pasatémpo m’ eíches
The first performance of this song, goes back to 1939 by the great voice of Roza Eskenazy and back vocals by Zacharias Kasimatis.
if you like you can listen to that here:
This sound of the old recordings, travells me back to that era of great pain and the music born out of it. How about you?
As a bonus track,
there is a very popular and uptempo remix of this song, by Imam Baildi ,produced about 8 years ago and brought it back on radios airlists.
Let me know which performance is your favorite and enjoy the positive vabrations!