Η Στέλλα η Σμυρνιά [I Stella i Smyrnia] [English translation]

You wake up again in the dawn with tears in your eyes

The same dream, you tell me, you saw it again yesterday

Listen how hookah does which drinks your pieces

Listen how baglamas* plays, over the roofs.

You got on music and you passed to the sea

Then in a yard you went down slowly

Your old man** in a corner, he called you rebel

And your mother was saying don’t leave again.

They will pass off you as crazy

That you wanna go to Aivali

To sing rebetika***

They will stick you slander

They will say Stella from Smyrna

She has stuck from hashish.

Later in a truck you were carrying your dowry

That you were guarding a lifetime for that moment

Where is my sweet girl your beauty and you sweetness

Now your voice ended up a scream.

You blamed God for the disgraceful world

That they made the neighbourhood a burned shop

In one hand the cigarette, in the eyes the complaint

To wonder to live anyone or not to live.