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Koj Će Ti Kupi al Kanari​č​e

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We learned this folk song from a recording by Ratko and Radiša Teofilović, performers of ancient music from Bosnia, Dalmatia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia. The liner notes from the Teofilovići album Dream Keepers explain: “This former wedding song from Kosovo is now sung outside the marriage celebration as a love song. . . . The future bridegroom addresses his sweetheart, posing two rhetorical questions: ‘Koj ce ti kupi al kanarice?’ and ‘Koj ce ti kupi taj burnus pojas?’ Al kanarice in local Kosovo-Resava dialect means the red scarf tied round the head of a married woman, and burnus pojas, or more correctly burmus pojas,
is the belt a married women ties round her waist. So the questions are: ‘Who will buy you a red scarf?’ and ‘Who will buy you an embroidered belt?’ After these rhetorical questions comes the expected single
answer: ‘Ja tebe Magdo, ja tebe džandžigeru—ja tebe.’ The compound noun džandžigeru means ‘dear heart.’ Hence the answer is ‘I, Magda, I will buy them for you, dear heart.’”

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from The Lonely Coast, released January 1, 2012
Kosovo, traditional; composer unknown

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The Lonely Coast (Valerie Holt & Anne Mathews) perform close-harmony duets, lullabies, and folk and traditional music from Europe and the Americas. They have performed on the Duwamish River, in the King County Library System, at the Arts in Nature Festival, as part of the Seattle Center's Next 50 celebration, and in the City of Seattle’s parks (as part of the Parks & Recreation Busker Program). ... more

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