Name: Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967 by Simon Pantelidis
Duration: 3 min 59 s
Description: Cover of the John Mayer track off of the Born and Raised album (2012). Feature vocalist!

This song is a tribute to an independent school (among many independent schools) that work to keep a language and a culture alive in diaspora. First draft, may update later.

Strange Greeks

Cover of the John Mayer track off of the Born and Raised album (2012). Feature vocalist!

Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967

Inspired by a similar feeling to that found in the song Η μπαλάντα του Oύρι, or "The ballad of Ouri", whose lyrics were written by Νίκος Γκάτσος (Nikos Gatsos). I may add the English translation of these lyrics later.

Lyrics (Greek original)

Ουρανέ, όχι δεν θα πω το ναι
Ουρανέ, φίλε μακρινέ
Πώς να δεχτώ άλλης αγκαλιάς τη στοργή
Πώς να δεχτώ, μάνα μου είν’ η γη
Πώς ν’ αρνηθώ της ζωής το φως το ξανθό
Αχ, ουρανέ, πόνε μακρινέ

Κάθε δειλινό κοιτώ τον ουρανό, τον γαλανό
κι ακούω μια φωνή, καμπάνα γιορτινή, να με παρακινεί
Κάθε Κυριακή, μου λέει να πάω εκεί, εκεί, εκεί
που χτίζουνε φωλιά αλλόκοτα πουλιά, στου ήλιου τα σκαλιά
 
Ουρανέ, όχι δεν θα πω το ναι...
 
Κάθε δειλινό κοιτώ τον ουρανό, τον γαλανό
και μια φωνή τρελή, σαν χάδι κι απειλή κοντά της με καλεί
Κάθε Κυριακή μου λέει να πάω εκεί, εκεί, εκεί
μου τάζει ωκεανούς, κομήτες φωτεινούς και ό,τι βάζει ο νους
 
Ουρανέ, όχι δεν θα πω το ναι...

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Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967

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