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MOTHERS’ DAY

3/6/2016

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​A song for Mother's Day - about the boys just old enough to be shot but still young enough to think about their mothers. Markos wrote it after the Germans left in October 1944. This is a recording by Markos' son Stelios who, like Dalaras, leaves out the last two verses which Markos gave in the Autobiography: 'One that went down very well was a zebekiko called Chaidhari. Chaidhari was a prison camp where they assembled the prisoners. They took them there from Merlin Street and that’s where they killed them. We sang this a lot but I didn’t record it' (p.188)
Chaidari
 
Mother run as fast as you can
Oh mother run quickly.
From Chaidari’s prison block
Run and set me free.
 
Because I’m under sentence
And I’m about to die,
Only seventeen years old
In iron chains I lie.
 
They’ll take me from Sekeri Street
To Chaidari today.
Hour by hour I expect
Charos to take me away.
 
Mama just look at the sword
Charos’ sharpened knife
That he’ll be carrying in his hand
As he takes each man’s life.
 
Talk to the other mothers
When you see me dead.
With sufferings even greater
Their poor hearts have bled.
 
Tell them I saw their children
In prison clothes ill-suited
Manacled in iron chains
Unjustly executed.
Χαϊδάρι
 
Τρέξε μανούλα όσο μπορείς
τρέξε για να με σώσεις
κι απ’ το Χαϊδάρι μάνα μου
να μ’ απελευθερώσεις.
 
Γιατί είμαι μελλοθάνατος
και καταδικασμένος
δεκαεφτάχρονο παιδί
στα σίδερα δεμένος.
 
Απ’ την οδό του Σέκερη
με πάνε στο Χαϊδάρι
κι ώρα την ώρα καρτερώ
ο Χάρος να με πάρει.
 
Να δεις του Χάρου το σπαθί
μανούλα που θα φέρνει
και τη ζωή του καθενός
μάνα πως θα την παίρνει.
 
Κι όταν με δεις μάνα νεκρό
να πεις στις άλλες μάνες
γιατί πονέσανε κι αυτές
με πίκρες πιο μεγάλες.
 
Πως είδα τα παιδάκια τους
στα σίδερα δεμένα
με την κατάδικη στολή
αδικοσκοτωμένα.
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