Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Violin by ​⁠@Dimitrios_Dallas, arrangement, vocals & video by Farya Faraji. This is a clip I filmed during my trip to Greece in May of 2022, with the original version of the video posted in September of 2022, but at the time my channel was smaller and I didn't have contacts with musicians, so the arrangement only featured the two instruments I could play: laouto and santouri. I wanted to remake it to include the violin as that is the central lead instrument in Nisiotika, the genre this song belongs to. Nisiotika is the genre of Aegean island songs.

Original upload:
youtube.com/watch?v=_G2Tw6QF9Zc

Greek Lyrics:
Αρμενάκι είμαι κυρά μου
Πάρε με, πάρε με
Έλα πάρε με

Και στην αγκαλιά σου μέσα
Βαλε με, βάλε με
Έλα βάλε με

Έλα βάρκα να με πάρεις
Πάρε με πάρε με
Έλα πάρε με

Σε νησιώτικο λιμάνι
Βγάλε με βγάλε με
Έλα βγάλε με

English translation:
Little boat I am, my lady
Take me, take me
Come, take me

And in your arms
Place me, place me
Come, place me

Come, little boat, to carry me
Take me, take me
Come, take me

To an island harbor
Set me down, set me down
Come, set me down