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. Below: 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 free for downloading. -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- YOUNG MICKO (folk) Enough going young Micko, enough walking, To the cauldron, young Micko, to Porec. The old mother, young Micko, shouted at him: Come on, come on, dear son, come home! Come home, dear son, on Easter! Old mother, young Micko obeyed, So young Micko went to Latovo. Bad luck, young Micko, you meet him there; Go sardis, young Micko, Turkish Nizam. The old mother then shouted: Lele Micko! Run, run, dear son, hide! -- They are not children, old mother, I should run away, Tuk is a hero, old mother, I should fight! -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- Micko Krstić (born in 1855 in the village of Latovu, Ottoman Empire — killed near the village of Užišta, October 13/16, 1909. Ottoman Empire ), known as Micko Porečki (after the area of ​​Poreč), was a Chetnik duke in Old Serbia. He was a carpenter by trade and for a time worked in Skopje. 1876 he ran away from home because of the cruelty of Džemajil-Džema and wandered around Romania and Serbia, and went to war. Mick Krstić's company was formed in Niš in 1879 with the help of Nikola Rašić and the military authorities in Vranje. After the Brsjačka Rebellion, he was imprisoned in 1882 and remained in prison until 1904. As soon as he was released from prison and returned home, he organized a company and began to clash with Bulgarians and Turks. Micko died after Hurriet. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- YOUTH Micko Krstić was born in the village of Latovu in Rabetinska Reka. His ancestors are from the village of Trebina in Poreč, an area near today's Makedonski Brod, which in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries strongly nurtured Serbian traditions. As a boy, Micko went to Skopje to bake the Samardji craft. Upon his return from Skopje, he found the old prisoner of the Albanian bey Džemail Aga, who humiliated and blackmailed his father. VOLUNTEER AND INSURRENT Micko went to Serbia, which entered the war with the Ottoman Empire in 1876. Micko was in the Serbian-Turkish war of 1876-1878. participated as a volunteer together with his compatriots from Poreč. After the war, he moved to Poreč and participated as a platoon leader together with Ilija Delia, Stef Petrović, and Rista Kostadinović in the guerrilla war of 1880-1881. known as the Brsjačka Uprising. That's when he took revenge on Dzhemail Ag, which is recorded in the folk song Sednal mi Džemo sloboden. Because of the winter and the pursuit, Micko disbanded the company in 1882 and took refuge in the village of Belica in Poreč. Turkish pursuits caught him and took him to Bitola prison where he "had to serve" 101 years of imprisonment. Because of his open Serbian declaration, he was the victim of an assassination attempt in the dungeon, which he barely survived. After that, he entered into correspondence with the Serbian consul in Bitola, *Milojko Veselinović, who tried to free him. In 1897, Bulgaria used the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 to obtain an amnesty for all Bulgarians in Turkish prisons. Micko Krstić refused to take advantage of the amnesty and pass himself off as a Bulgarian, and remained in prison until 1901 when the Serbian consul finally managed to free him. From 1901 to April 1904, Micko lived in Bitola with modest help from the Serbian consulate. CHAT When, after the Ilindan uprising, the VMRO's terror against the Serbs increased. Savatije Milošević and Lazar Kujundžić managed to transfer him to Poreč, where he organized the first Serbian company on the right side of Vardar. Frightened by the cult of Mick as an old fighter and favorite folk hero, VMRO leaders launched an attack on Mick in October 1904. The troops of Georgi Sugarev, Petar Acev and Damjan Gruev attacked him near the village of Slatina in Poreč. Micko endured the fight and even won a victory in which the revisionist Duke of VMRO, Damjan Gruev, was also captured. Micko gave Gruev his life and released him on the condition that he no longer attacks the Serbs. Gruev was transferred to Bulgaria through the consulates in Bitola and Skopje and was not handed over to the Turks. Due to his age, Micko was soon transferred to Serbia. After the Young Turk Revolution, he returned to Poreč. The Turkish goal was to behead the people, so since Micko Krstić was their first target, they killed him on 13/16. October 1909 near the village of Ižišta near Kičevo. sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micko_Krstić Consul Milojko Veselinović participated in the Serbian-Turkish war in 1876 in his young years. In this war, he was the c