Folk song source:
Tam daleko šumica je mala/Far Away There is a Small Forest
Irena Miholić, Renata Jambrešić Kirin: Prvi svjetski rat u hrvatskim tradicijskim pjesmama, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku,Zagreb, 2019/ World War I in Croatian Traditional Folk Songs, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb, 2019
lyrics
TAM' DALEKO ŠUMICA JE MALA
Tam' daleko šumica je mala, tam daleko, oj!
Tam daleko šumica je mala.
U šumici zeleni se trava, u šumici oj!
A u travi ljubičica plava.
Ljubičice i ja bi te brala, ljubičice oj!
Ali nemam kome bi te dala.
Imala sam brata i dragana, imala sam oj!
Imala sam brata i dragana.
Brata su mi Rusi zarobili, zarobili oj!
Brata su mi Rusi zarobili.
A dragoga možda i ubili, i ubili oj!
A dragoga možda i ubili.
Far away from here there is a small forest. The grass is green in the forest, and you can see blue violets growing there. I would like to pick the violets, but I have no-one to give them to. I did have a brother and a sweetheart. My brother was captured by the Russians, and my sweetheart may have even been killed by them.
Song from World War I when young soldiers were recruited from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Other than Austria and Hungary, the empire's territory is today divided between Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland
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