To read about my project on Velika Narodna Lira, see my introduction post here. I absolutely love this up-tempo number. There is very...

It's been a while! I'm back with a short little Velika Narodna Lira post about a song I've been singing for months. Enjoy! Lastavice,...

If you’re like me, right about this time of year you start wishing you were by the sea. And what’s better than a good Dalmatian song to...

Unlike many of the previous songs, the popular title of this one is the first line of the third verse. This is likely because the lyrics...

I've been working on this post for a long time because of the translation, which was a bit tricky! (That's why it's out of alphabetical...

Today, I arrived in Kotor. It’s the first time I’ve been here in 11 years. And coincidentally, I have a song from the Bay of Kotor (Boka...

It's been a long time since my last post! Sorry about that. But I'm back with one of my favorite posts so far. I'm interested to hear...

We have again arrived at a kolo song, this time from the southern Serbian town of Vranje. Fatiše kolo vranjske devojke (2 puta) Vranjske...

We are back, with another sevdalinka. This one may have been first performed by Zaim Imamović. He sings slightly different lyrics than...

I love a good film song. So many folk songs in Yugoslavia were popularized through film, and I, too, often learn new songs by watching...

Đaurko mila, tuga me mori Za oči tvoje, što suze rone. Ustašca tvoja, prepuna baja – Ah, dođi, dođi sred zagrljaja! Znaš kako srce umilno...

Finally, we have come to a song that I cannot find a trace of on the Internet. It's interesting that some of the songs in this book have...

This song has been stuck in my head for months. With the help of this fellow (who I cannot endorse on anything other than his notes on...

The first song in Velika Narodna Lira, which is organized in alphabetical order, is “Aj, od kako sam sevdah svez’o.” It is a sevdalinka,...

I visited the Belgrade Book Fair twice in October 2019, and on the second go around I found this book, Velika Narodna Lira: 1000 Pesama...