Gus Dussas - To Kalogeraki

recorded in Chicago, December, 1930. A song of bitter, unrequited love. The lyrics are full of tears and oaths, including swearing to become, as the title says "a little monk.". "I'd prefer a knife to your lies."
from the LP Bed of Pain: Rembetika, 1931-55 (Mississippi/Change/Canary Records, 2012)
sound and notes by Ian Nagoski
cover by Eric Isaacson