017. Blago nama, evo našeg kuma
Dialect: D
Topic: From Cradle to Grave
Reference: ZTI_AP_8166g
Incipit: Blago nama, evo našeg kuma [Bless us, here comes our best man]
Locality: Magyarcsanád/Čanad
Sung by Rakila Neduca (b. Bunjevac, 76)
Year: 28. 2. 1959
Collector: Tihamér Vujicsics
Transcription: Tihamér Vujicsics
Comment: A wedding song, sung when the best man (“kum”) is coming to the groom’s home. In this case, wedding verses are sung to the melody of bećarac.
Transcription of a variant of the song was published in the Collection (nr. 93).
NOTE
![](http://vujicsics.zti.hu/wp-content/uploads/k093_Blago_nama-1024x613.jpg)
LYRICS
Blago nama, blago nama,
evo našeg kuma,
blago nama, blago nama,
evo našeg kuma!
Blago nama, evo našeg kuma!
Volem kuma neg zlatnog goluba:
golub biti, pa će odleteti,
a s kumom ću rujno vino piti.