Searching for songs about 'home'

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  1. Mo said:

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    Dear All,

    Let's introduce myself. I'm a dutch artist living in Rotterdam. At the end of WWII my Croatian grandparents fled from former Yugoslavia to Austria and ended up finally in The Netherlands.
    I became fascinated with this history, which had influenced not only the life of my family, but also the lives of a great number of other people. I wanted to understand what it meant to have to leave your own country, your own house.

    Here's my question: I'm looking for old or new slavic songs/lyrics that deal with home/homeland or displacement. I would be very very thankful if someone could help me with that!

    Kind regards, Monique
     
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    Spring said:

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    First of all, I am Serbian but have been raised in Yugoslavia and as Yugoslavian... That means that I learned a lot of stuff in school about our 'history' and later lived through a lot of things that created some new histories and raised doubts about old histories.. At some point I gave up on the idea of ever figuring out the whole truth in all that is called "history" by any of the sides and decided to concentrate on what is now... and I still live by the rule that my mother taught me - all people are created equal!
    I can only begin to imagine how it must be like for people who had to leave their homes because of some mass insanity and politics and... It was always the case that innocent people suffered the most.
    What we should actually discuss here are only songs, which is what you asked about in the first place so..
    Here is one I personally love veryyy very much...

    Uzalud vam trud sviraci

    Sto put sam se evo zakleo
    pred jutro te prevario
    drugoj ja sam bagrem nosio
    tebe iznevjerio

    Sto put sam se evo zakleo
    pa te prevario
    sad bih dukate od jada
    bas u blato bacio

    Ref.
    A za oblak mi se mjesec skrio
    sakrio mi pute
    uzalud vam trud sviraci
    za drugog su dunje zute

    A ja evo nekad sjetim se
    sto moj caca znao reci je
    sve ti duse, sine, slavonske
    uz pjesmu prebole
    al ne oproste

    Uz pjesmu mi se evo rodimo
    uz pjesmu umiremo
    Slavonijo ko te nije volio
    ne zna sta je izgubio


    ~ In Vain You Try Musicians

    I swore one hundred times already
    Before morning I cheated on you
    To someone else I carried black locust
    Betrayed you

    I swore one hundred times already
    and then cheated on you
    Woe ducats I would now
    throw away right in the mud

    And the moon hid behind a cloud
    hid my way
    In vain you try musicians
    quinces are yellow for someone else

    And I sometimes remember
    what my dad used to say
    Slavonian souls, my son,
    get over everything, with singing
    but don't forgive

    We are born with singing
    We die with singing
    Slavonija, those who never loved you
    Don't know what they've lost

    And the moon hid behind a cloud
    hid my way
    In vain you try musicians
    quinces are yellow for someone else