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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. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- VOJVODA VOJA TANKOSIC (folk) If I am the source of water, mother, I am would know where to flow, I would flow, mother sea, down Kozjak mountain. The black Turks are walking there, Black luck has arrived, They beat you, Mother Sea, The mighty Serbs. Down the Kozjak my white Serbs, All the young heroes lele, Thin rifles, ay mori, Clean mother. Thin rifles clean mom, September wine sing lele, Wine sing, aj mori, Songs sing. Led by the young Duke, Tankosić Vojo mamo, Živ ni bio, slavan beo, Tankosić Vojo. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Vojislav Voja Tankosić (Ruklada, September 28, 1880 — Trstenik, November 2, 1915) As a member of the Comite organization, he was sent in the winter of 1903/04 to Skopje, Bitola and Thessaloniki, where he worked on organizing Comite actions in Macedonia. Tankosić was considered one of the bravest dukes of Komita and a good shooter. On April 16, 1905, he participated in the battle on Chelopek near Kumanovo in the company of Duke Savati Milošević. A little later, he commanded the company in the battle of Velika Hoča. After that, there was a lull due to the Serbian-Bulgarian customs union concluded on July 6, 1905, so Tankosić was withdrawn to Serbia, where he was awarded the Order of the Star of Karađorđe. From the second half of 1905 to October 1907, he attended and graduated from the Higher Military Academy. In 1907/1908. he was the head of the mountain staff of East Povardar, that is to say the commander of all companies on the stretch from the Serbian border to Vardar. He led an attack on a Bulgarian company in the village of Stracin in 1908, which almost caused the Serbian-Bulgarian war. He returned to Belgrade in July 1908. Known as Vojvoda Tankosić, he was a major of the Serbian army, a Chetnik voivode, one of the founders of the Black Hand and a participant in the most important historical events in Serbia, from the May Uprising in 1903 to the Sarajevo assassination. He is the bearer of the Golden Military Order of the Star of Karađorđe with swords.