This folk song appears in many different variants, depending on the location. The most prominent interpretation is that the song is referring to a squad of klephts coming from Livadeia, an area close to the village Leontari of Arcadia, which is near Tripoli (Tripolitsa).

Tripolitsa was the largest city of Morea and was always a target of the klephtic groups, since even the pre-revolution years. Thus, a group of forty klephts set to siege and free Tripolitsa. On their way, they meet a seasoned old klepht. They ask for his assistance; not for his physical strength, but for his wise advice, since he has many years of experience as a klepht on the mountains. He tells them, though, that he is now old and won’t be useful to them. But he doesn’t stop there. He suggests that they take his son, who knows well the paths and is as capable as himself. For a father, it was a great joy and honour for his son to become a fighter for freedom and join a klephtic group. Tradition has it that this old man was Stamatelos Tourkolekas from the village Tourkoleka of Leontario, a renowned klepht that was killed in 1805. Stamatelos was the father of Nikitaras, whom he tells the klephts to recruit.