102c. Na kraj sela čađava mehana

Dialect: D
Theme: Instrumental and instrumental-sung music
Reference: MZA-VT-AV-4.037A_02.50–04.11
Title or incipit: Na kraj sela čađava mehana [At the edge of the village, there is a grimy tavern]
Locality: Tököl (Tukulja)
Played by: tambura orchestra from Tököl plays under the direction of Mijo Milković.
Year: probably 1954

Comment: Instrumental version of the song. The author of the song is Sándor Petőfi, a famous Hungarian writer and poet. A Serbian poet, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj translated about twenty of Petőfi’s songs into Serbian, among which was the song “At the edge of the village, there is a grimy tavern”, which was later popularized and folklorized. (Szofia Káplán)