Η Έλλη θέλει σκότωμα.

Abstract

This song, which obviously originated in Asia Minor, is strophic in composition. Each verse is in the form of a rhyming couplet in fifteen syllable iambic meter, followed by a thirteen syllable refrain in a contrasting trochaic meter. The melody is in two parts: the first, which covers the first line plus the repeat of the second hemistich, is based on the terachord A-B flat-C sharp-C, while the second is based on the low chromatic pentachord.