O Stavros tou Notou - G.Dalaras (Ο σταυρός του Νότου)

Crux , commonly known as "Τhe Southern Cross", is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations, but nevertheless one of the most distinctive. It is surrounded on three sides by the constellation Centaurus, and to the south lies Musca (in Greek Μυία).

Στίχο /Poem by : Νίκος Καββαδίας -- Nikos Kavvadias
Μουσική / Music: Θάνος Μικρούτσικος -- Thanos Mikroutsikos

The sea was boiling under the Nor'wester
Over charts of the oceans we pored.
You turned and said how by March-time
In latitudes other you'd be.

On your chest is Chinese tattooing
No burning will make it come off.
It is said that you loved her with passion
Black fever had taken your mind.

Keeping watch by a desolate headland
Southern Cross is now seen in the stars.
Coral worry-beads click in your fingers
Harsh coffee beans crunch in your teeth.

With a bearing on Alpha-Centaurus
Using Azimuth compass one night,
In a voice deathly quiet you warned me:
"Beware Southern skies and their stars".

To learn the lessons of the heavens,
The whole of three months you had spent
With the half-breed girl of the captain,
To sail with the skies at dark night.

A knife you had bought for two shillings
In a shop down in "Nosy Be".
Right on the equator, exactly at noon
It shone like a lighthouse beam.

For some years now down on Africa's shores
You gave up the oceans for sleep.
You do not remember the beacons of old
Or Sunday's delectable sweets.

Σταυρός του Νότου

Εβραζε το κύμα του γαρμπή.
Είμαστε σκυφτοί κι οι δυο στο χάρτη
γύρισες και μου'πες πως το Μάρτη
σ΄άλλους παραλλήλους θα'χεις μπει.

Κούλικο στο στήθος σου τατού,
που όσο κι αν το καις δεν λέει να σβήσει.
Είπαν πως την είχες αγαπήσει
σε μια κρίση μαύρου πυρετού.

Βάρδια πλάι σε κάβο φαλακρό
κι ο Σταυρός του Νότου με τα στράλια.
Κομπολόι κρατάς από κοράλλια
κι άκοπο μασάς καφέ πικρό.

Το Αλφα του Κενταύρου μια νυχτιά
με το παλιονώριο πήρα κάτου.
Μου'πες με φωνή ετοιμοθανάτου:
"Να φοβάσαι τ'άστρα του Νοτιά".

Αλλοτε απ΄τον ίδιον ουρανό
έπαιρνες, τρεις μήνες στην αράδα,
με του καπετάνιου τη μιγάδα,
μάθημα πορείας νυχτερινό.

Σ'ένα μαγαζί του Nossi Be
πήρες το μαχαίρι, δυο σελίνια,
μέρα μεσημέρι απά στη λίνια
ξάστραψε σα φάρου αναλαμπή.

Κάτου στις αχτές της Αφρικής
πάνε χρόνια τώρα που κοιμάσαι.
Τα φανάρια πια δεν τα θυμάσαι
και τ' ωραίο γλυκό της Κυριακής.

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• Stavros

[Stevend2be]

Favourited !! And added to my Dalarasplaylist !!

May ♥love♥ be with you !!

Steven

[knsmaximo]

The creator of the song is not Dallaras though.

Try to look for Kavadias, and an album called "Grammes ton orizonton" It has many songs like that

[knsmaximo]

@Dynamitrios

No problem :)

[Dynamitrios]

@knsmaximo I know^^ im greek myself and i have almost all the poetry of good ole Kavadias in my bookshelf

Also i apologise for the multiple posts, dont know how that happened

[knsmaximo]

@Dynamitrios

The composer of the song was a seaman and his inspiration was his life and experiences from the sea

[Dynamitrios]

This song is so intense and full of emotion, its almost unreal

[Dynamitrios]

This song is so intense and full of emotion, its almost unreal