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. -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- The poem was found and sent to me by the historian Dejan Antić. -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- JOVAN BABUNSKI (folk) John fell asleep, the hero fell asleep in the green mountain, And the girl, and the girl, stone the gorge. When a girl wakes up, when she leaves, nobody wakes Jovana of Baboon. A chicken flew by, a chicken flew by, it stopped, it stopped on his right shoulder, The chicken whistled, the chicken whistled, it said to Jovan: "Stop John, stop hero, the mountain is burning for me, the mountain is burning, the mountain is burning, the Turks are on fire" Wake up , Jovan Mlad Delija wakes up. He speaks from Azot the hero: "Dad chicken, dad chicken, Slavej's chicken, I'm Serbs, real Serbs, that's how we die, And the crazy chickens of life don't pity me!" Small company, small company, ninth of the second, Whole nine, whole nine, hero to hero. Somewhere, somewhere, in the night we left, We need evening, we need evening, the enemy must be destroyed. The mountain burns, the mountain burns, the Turks burned. -------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Jovan Stojković - Babunski was born in the village of Martolci on December 25, 1878, in the Azot area near Veles. He finished elementary school in the villages of Omoranu, Bogomili and Vojnica. In the Veleska Gymnasium, a Bulgarian teacher enrolled him as Ivana Stojkova, after which his father sent him to Serbia to study. He finishes lower secondary school in Valjevo, after which he becomes a student of the Society of St. Sava. As a cadet of this society, which educated students from Old Serbia and Macedonia, he attended the theological teachers' school in Belgrade. After finishing school, he returns to Azot, where he becomes a teacher in the village of Teovo. As a Serbian teacher, he endured the pressures of VMRO. After VMRO members killed his brother and nephews in Martolac in 1905, he decided to defect and join the Serbian Chetniks Gligor Sokolović and Temeljek Barjaktrević, who appeared in Azot at the end of 1904. In April 1905, he came to Azot together with the company of Stevan Nedić Ćele and Sreten Rajković. Near the village of Oreša, there is a conflict with the VMRO company under the command of Stevan Dimitrov, which is destroyed to the last man after being surrounded by Gligor, Temeljko and Babunski. As duke Jovan Babunski leads several battles with VMRO companies and the Turkish army at Movnatec, Kurt's Stone, Nož and many others. He emerged victorious from every fight. When there was a coup in Turkey in 1908 and when the Young Turks came to power, proclaimed the Constitution and general reconciliation, Duke Babunski stopped chatting for a while. However, the Balkan ulcer could not be treated with phrases. The Young Turks arrested Duke Babunski, but he managed to escape to Serbia. In 1912, during the First Balkan War, he participated in the battles of Strevica in the detachment of Vojvode Vuka, where he was wounded. In the Second Balkan War, he participated in the Volunteer Detachment in the Battle of Bregalnica. After the outbreak of the First World War, Babunski formed the Sava Chetnik Detachment, later renamed the Rudnički Chetnik Detachment under the command of Major Vojislav Tankosić. After the victories at Cer and Kolubara in 1914, the committee in Sofia, at the persuasion of Vienna, inserted companies into what was then Southern Serbia. The Serbian government is forming Chetnik squads to suppress the terrorist activities of these companies. Jovan Babunski was appointed as the commander of these anti-terrorist and pursuit departments. On the Thessaloniki front in 1916, the Babunski detachment was assigned to the First Army and assigned to a section near Prespa Lake. In the battles with the Bulgarians and Germans in this sector, Babunski and his squad stand out by capturing the enemy behind the front line and gathering information. After the capture of two German torpedo boats, he was decorated by the French general Français de Eperet. He died in Veles on February 17, 1920 from the Spanish flu.