Text & Translation
Tout gai!
Greek source:
Anon.
Echeis gámpa,
tik e tik e spásta,
ta potíria spásta, vái na ma.
Tra la la.
So merry!
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Ah, so merry;
Lovely leg, tireli, that dances
Lovely leg, the crockery dances,
Tra la la.
Translation © Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Tout gai!
Greek source:
Anon.
So merry!
English source:
Richard Stokes
Giaroumpi,
So merry,
Echeis gámpa,
Ah, so merry;
tik e tik e spásta,
Lovely leg, tireli, that dances
ta potíria spásta, vái na ma.
Lovely leg, the crockery dances,
Tra la la.
Tra la la.
Composer
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. In the 1920s and 1930s he was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. He was one of the first composers to acknowledge the potential of recording in making…
