"We Will Live Together" -- Stelios Kazantzidis and Marinella

I love this song.  Derveniotis Theodoros and Kostas Virvos were having a most excellent day when they composed it and Stelio's and Marinella were in prime form (and very much in love, I think) when they made this video!

From the movie "Let Me Live".

It's worth reading the Wikipedia entries for both Stelios Kazantzidis and Marinella; like so many musicians playing rebetiko and associated music,  their roots were in the Ottoman Empire and ended up in Greece as part of what  is euphemistically known as the "population exchange".

Here is a link to the lyrics, painstakingly and meticulously translated by Comrade Google.  My sense is the line of lyrics with no chord symbols above are the spoken lyrics, but goodness knows...



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