Aise


Aise, Atımı Bağladım Ben Bir Ormana, is an instrumental dance tune common throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Sections of its melody are found as part of “Selanik”, a tune from Macedonia; in apiece by the Ottoman Armenian composer Tatyos Efendi; and in the song, “Love’s Like a Pin,”from Asia Minor and Propontis. What was probably the first recording has also been identified: a 78 made in Cairo in 1910 under the title, “Bulbul Al-Afrah”, with the Jewish musician Ibrahim Sahalun ’s Takht on violin. In Lesvos, the tune is called “Aisé”. It may have had lyrics at some point in the past and was most commonly performed in the west of the island.
The tune is characteristic of the petachtos karsilamas- an entire category of dance performed to tunes with a very rapid time signature. This type of karsilamas is also called aïdinikos, and the rhythm has nine beats.There are similar folkloric tunes known as Gel Gel Aman.

Turkish

Suzan Yakar Rutkay Lyrics

Atımı bağladım ben bir ormana

Benden selam söylede çapkın oğlana
Oğlan gıdı gıdıdagel gel gel gel

Eller sarar ah yüreğime dert olur
Atımı bağladım ben bir meşeye

Benden selam söylede çapkın Ayşe'ye
Ayşem gıdı gıdıdagel gel gel gel

Eller sarar ah yüreğime dert olur.

Greek

Kiria Koula Lyrics

Σε περίμενα βραδάκι

αχ, να μη ιδείς μην είμαι εδώ

λες και μ’ έχει αποθαμένο

αχ, λέγε με και ζωντανό

αχ, λέγε με και ζωντανό

-Αχ, γιάλα γιάλα!

-Γκελ, γκελ, γκελ, γκελ, γκελ!

μαύρα μάτια έχεις, φως μου

μαύρα είναι σαν την ελιά

κι όποιος τα γλυκοφιλήσει

αχ, Χάρο δεν φοβάται πια

αχ, Χάρο δεν φοβάται πια

-Γιάλα!

-Γκελ, γκελ, γκελ, γκελ!

-Ωχ, γιάλα γιάλα γιάλα!

-Γεια σου Θανάση Μακεδόνε, γεια σου!