MARKOS VAMVAKARIS !
STOW THE BAGLAMAS !
THERE YOU ARE !
WARDEN WANTS YOU IN HIS OFFICE RIGHT AWAY !
COMING , SIR , COMING .
LITTLE BREAK WAS WORTH IT . RIGHT ?
WASN'T BAD
TIME TO SHAKE A LEG!
Mate!
TONIGHT I KISSED AMONG THE VINES
TWO TALL GIRLS WITH GREAT BLACK EYES
TODAY AT NOON AMONG THE VINES
I KISSED SOMEBODY ELSE'S Wife
OHTHIS YEAR
THIS
YEAR
THE SALAD WILL BE SWEET
AN OLIVE
Α ΤΟΜΑΤΟ
KERKRKRI KRI
THOUGHT IT WAS THE COPS FOR A SEC BUT THOSE SCREECHY VOICES GAVE YOU AWAY , GUYS !
DOG'S NOT WITH YOU ?
NO LYRE ?
DOG'S STUCK BETWEEN A CHAIR AND A HOOKAH Hee Hee Hee
YOU NAILED HIS VOICE ! FINE BY Me !
AS FOR MY LYRE - HAD THE BRIGHT IDEA NOT TO BRING IT . THEN I GOT INTO A FIGHT !
WELL ! LET'S GO GET MARKOS !
SING IT'LL G0 FASTER .
SIT DOWN . MARKOS .
WELL . WARDEN ?
UH .
YOU GET RELEASED TODAY . MARKOS .
I KEPT A BOUZOUKI SAFE . YOU'LL SING ME ONE LAST REBETIKO , OKAY ?
HOW MUCH TIME HAVE YOU SPENT INSIDE ? SIX MONTHS , RIGHT ?
LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED OUTSIDE YOU'LL SEE - EH ? WHAT'S THAT . SOUND ?
PROBABLY YOUR FRIENDS COME TO WAIT FOR YOU . How BRAVE !
YOU KNOW WHO GENERAL METAXAS is ?
HE DEGREED MARTIAL LAW AFTER THE COMMUNIST STRIKES ON AUGUST 4TH HE TOOK POWER . AND MADE THIS COUNTRY A DICTATORSHIP
He's A FASCIST , YOU KNOW . ONE OF THOSE MEN WHO LIKE WHAT HITLER'S UP TO IN GERMANY , MUSSOLINI IN ITALY . AND FRANCO IN SPAIN .
THAT WHOLE GANG
METAXAS CONDEMNS THE WEAKENED MORALS OF OUR SO - CALLED DECADENT SOCIETY .....
HIS PROPAGANDA POINTS OUT THOSE GUILTY OF THIS ALLEGED IMMORALITY .
AND ATTRIBUTES IT TO THE ORIENTAL IN US. ALL SAYS HE WILL RID GREECE OF ALL TURKISH INFLUENCE
DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THIS MEANS ? NO . ME NEITHER. THERE'S BEEN ORIENT MIXED UP IN US FOREVER .
OUR ORIGINS ARE INTERMINGLED
BUT AS YOU WELL KNOW . REBETIS , YOU ARE ALL SYMBOLS .
YOU'LL BE HIS FIRST TARGETS . IDEAL SCAPEGOATS .
NO ONE WILL Miss YOU .
YOU AND YOUR SMUGGLING YOU . THE VOICE OF THE TURKISH (?)
OH!
(?)
RUN !
GUILTY OF UNITING EAST AND WEST IN HYPNOTIC SONG .
You EVEN CALL YOURSELVES DERVISHES !
YOUR MUSIC RINGS OUT LIKE THE ACH OF THE GREAT CATASTROPHE 1922
INTOLERABLE . FOR THE FASCISTS
THAT SUCH DEFEAT SHOULD GIVE BIRTH
.... TO A SONG !
MY POOR BOUZOUKI
THEY WISH TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS FOR THIS FAILURE .
SO THEY START BY STIFLING A SONG
* The Greeks lost Smyrna and the illusion of a great empire sebors . After this bitter defeat , 1.5 million Orthodox Creek Chints who had lived in Turkey for generations had to emigrate to Conece and lived there in miserable conditions . The slums at the gates of the great cites housed skillful musicians from Turkey whose styles melded with that of ancients from Piraeus . Rebetiko was born
STOP ! STOP !
THE PRE KNEELING BY THE ONE MY BOUZOUKI KNOCKED OUT .
MY POOR BOUZOUKI ...
BEHIND You !
MY BOUZO
MOURN LATER . FOR NOW , RUN ! AH , HILL !
THEY'RE BACK ! Let's SCRAM
THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE Tekes ONE BY ONE , USING FIGHTS AS AN EXCUSE BANNING SONGS ABOUT DRUGS AND CRIME .
EVERY WHERE THY DENGRATE REBETIKA SAV NEW IT'S MELODies TWIST AND WIND
SAP AND WEAKEN WHAT'S MORE OWNING A SOUZOUKI OR A BABLAMASIS ILLEGAL COPS SMASH THEM . WESTWARD WE DRIFT !
IT SEEMS IDIOTIC IN THIS LAND . THE CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY . BUT
DIONYSUS IS LONG DEAD
AND THE PEOPLE ACCEPT iT
DON'T KID YOURSELF IT'LL BE A BLOODY SUPPRESSION , Like A BLOW FROM A CUDGEL .
YOU'RE ONE OF THE BEST .
YOU'LL BE A HANDSOME PRIZE .
FLEE ATHENS . OR YOUR MUSIC WILL LAND YOU BACK HERE !
SAH ALL POWER IS A DISASTER
YOU WANT M TO PLAY OR NOT ?
YES : PLAY ME " SOUZOUKI , JOY OF THE WORLD "
SPLIT UP !
мест UP AT MARKOS
TOO DAN OUROUS
HA HA LOST " al
MY BAUENKI
OH , MY LUNGS ARE FIT TO BURSTI
AND MY FEET JELLY LET'S GO TO MY STORE . I'LL FIND YOU A BOUZOUKI
YOU THINK ARTIMIS GOT AWAY ?
WHAT A STUPID . QUESTION www .
CAN'T THINK ANYMORE MY BRAIN is being SQUEEZED BY THESE GOD DAMN
shoes !
OF CHRIST
TORTURE'S OVER !
HEY STAVROS HOW ABOUT A STICK ?
I've SUFFERED ENOUGH , SNEAKING THEM AROUND IN REALS I DESERVE
AH SMUGGLING, WHAT A SPORT
LET'S SEE.. A HANDSOME ONE FOR YOU
NOT BAD . EH?
FOOT TASTE
MAKE DO HERE TRY THIS ONE
IT ALONE WILL MAKE YOU FORGET THE OTHER ONE .
A GEM . CH ?
YeAll
YOU'LL SHINE TONIGHT !
YOUR FINGERS WILL FLY OVER iT ! THEY'LL FIND THEIR WAY THEMSELVES
CATCHI
DON'T HAVE THE SCRATCH FOR SUCH STYLE .
CH ? I'M GIVING IT TO YOU , BUDDY
ZERO !
GRATIS !
[ FREE !
THIS BOUZOUKIS VOICE
WILL AVENE US IN THE COPS THE JERKS PUR MISURY .
AND IF YOU MANAGE TO SEDUCE THE SINGER FROM CAFE AMANI INVITED TO JOIN US TONIGHT WITH IT
YOU ASKED HER ? WILL
SHE SURE IS PRETTY , CHP OLD SCOUNDREL
PRETTY ? OH , PAL
TAKE THE BOUZOUKI
