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A Beautiful Coach with Two Horses-The death of a great Greek composer
On 7 August 2015, Greece lost one of its greatest song-writers, Costas Virvos. He composed more than 2,000 songs, many of which have been characterized as classic, all sung by Greece’s greatest singers. One of our favourite songs is “A Beautiful Coach With Two Horses”, sung by a famous classic Greek singer, Gregoris Bithikotsis. Here are the lyrics, translated into English (with an effort to make them make sense): A beautiful coach with two horses you bring me when I close my eyes (ie. when I die) the wrong and absurd world as a horseman for once to promenade The one horse to be white like the dreams I did…