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Part of a collection of Komite/Chetnik folk songs from the Serbian-Turkish wars of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Text and description.... Visit Mica's website: www.micapetrovic.com -- all songs are free to download. Visit Mića's site: www.micapetrovic.com -- all songs are for free downloading. DAFINKA ON THE VARDAR SPRINGS (folk) Dafinka canvas notes, On the Vardar springs. Then the young Vancha passed by and said to Dafinka: Don't drink that water, Dafinka, that water is bloody from the heroic long dagger. Dafinka Wanchu doesn't listen. Why did you get so angry? If you weren't a pain in the ass, or if your mother scolded you? - I wasn't sick, nor was my mother scolding me; I'm angry with you, because you wrote to a comita, a comita doesn't look at the house, a comita doesn't take care of a wife, a comita doesn't kiss a lover, a comita doesn't hurt children; Komita likes weapons, Komita asks inquires Where is the huge village, Where are the Turks staying, Where are the Serbian enemies? The poem describes the meeting of a boy and a girl "at the springs of Vardar", i.e. the Serbian village of Vrutok, at the source of the Vardar, municipality of Gostivar. At that time, Serbs lived in Gornji and Donji Polog, the municipalities of Tetovo and Gostivar. The names Jovan and Ivan had the usual nickname Vanča.