Stis Gramvoussas t’ Akrotiri
Enjoy this video with the song “Stis Gramvoussas t’ Akrotiri”, one of the most-sung and best-loved songs of Crete. The composer is Kostas Mountakis, who also appears in this video.
The Tzegas mentioned in the lyrics was a real person born in 1900 in Laconia. Tzegas lived in Gramvousa, Kisamos, with his wife Maria, even though he was from the Peloponnese.
Nikos Tzegas had a unique talent: he could compose music by whistling, although he did not play any musical instrument.
He was a fisherman and, with his boat “Kyriakos”, lived from the offerings of the sea around Gramvoussa, where he was lost in the raging waves in 1966.
Lyrics – English Translation
At Gramvoussa’s cape I once made merry
With a Cretan fisherman
An old captain
Whose boat was named joy, in the waters of Gramvoussa.
Seductive sea, sea drowner of fine men,
Where’s the old merrymaker and the ancient singer?
All the boats are sailing, with sheet and oar,
In the waters of Gramvoussa.
But Tzega’s little boat returns no more.
To the waters of Gramvoussa.
Seductive sea, sea drowner of fine men,
Where’s the old merrymaker, the ancient singer?
To rig out his joy and sing his song?
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