Una Epic Production 2023
Arrangement by Bojan Đurić, vocals by
Marija Moravac and Nikolina Damjanić. This is a song present in at least three of
the Balkan's Slavic-speaking cultures: Serbs
Bosnians and Croats. The lyrics used here are
from the Bosnian and Serbian versions. There are
multiple versions of the song with different lyrics,
even time signatures, but they tend to share lyrical
similarities about a dewy meadow, and a girl
stringing pearls in it. The Bosnian version of the
lyrics I decided to use makes reference to tyrants
who "took the girl's beloved,' and given the
historical and cultural context of this phrase and
song, the interpretation many have is that it is an
implicit reference to the Ottomans; representing
the suffering felt by natives of the Balkans at the
hand of imperial domination under said empire.
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