Name: Andromache's Wedding (Sappho 44)
Duration: P00H03M52S
Description: Inspired by a fragment by the only ancient Greek female author with any surviving works that takes one of the most tragic characters in the Iliad--Andromache, Hector's wife--and imagines the happiest day of her life.

Andromache's Wedding (Sappho 44)

from Greener than Grass by Marissa Henry

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Inspired by a fragment by the only ancient Greek female author with any surviving works that takes one of the most tragic characters in the Iliad--Andromache, Hector's wife--and imagines the happiest day of her life.

lyrics

Bring me to your town
Announce my dowry
Silken purple gowns
And gold and ivory

Chorus:
Play the flute and the castanets
Let’s celebrate our one good day
Myrrh and cinnamon overwhelm us
Women sing ololuge

Everyone will cheer
And dance in chorus
How could we have known
What fate held for us?

Chorus

Bridge:
Mix the wine, raise it high
Smile at your blushing dark-eyed bride
I don’t know where we’ll go
When all the songs are over

Even if you die
And I am taken
Our fame will reach the sky
Of love unshaken

Chorus

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from Greener than Grass, released November 28, 2018

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Marissa Henry Berkeley, California

Marissa is a Classics Ph.D. student and singer-songwriter specializing in folk-pop adaptations of ancient Greek poetry played on toy instruments.

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