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List of Serb patriotic songs includes poems and songs, both composed for music and literary works, with pronounced patriotic motives and themes. Serb civil flag, in constant use since 1835 Statue of Mother Serbia
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Serbian recruits singing the song while mobilized into World War I (1914). Rado ide Srbin u vojnike (Serbian Cyrillic: Радо иде Србин у војнике), translated as "The Serb Enlists Gladly in the Army", [1] is a popular Serbian patriotic song. [2]
The "March on (or to) the Drina" (Serbian: Марш на Дрину, romanized: Marš na Drinu, pronounced [mârʃ na drǐːnu]) is a Serbian patriotic march which was composed to commemorate the Serbian victory in Battle of Cer during World War I and came to be seen as a symbol of Serbian resistance and victory in the World War I. Along with the other World War I song, Tamo daleko, it became ...
The song "Bože pravde", composed by Davorin Jenko, was part of the play's musical score. The song gained more popularity among the people than the piece itself, and in 1882, on the occasion of Milan's enthronement as Serbian king, Đorđević reworked the text and so his new version became the first official anthem of Serbia. [16] [17] [10]
In 1992, Vostani Serbije and March on the Drina were proposed as the anthem of Serbia along with Bоže pravde. [8] Ahead of the 2000 general elections in Serbia, an altered version of the song was used in campaigns (...you have slept enough, and joked enough, now wake up, and awaken the Serbs, to vote!). [9]
Other lyrics were not combined together until years later. "Jugoslavska mati" (Yugoslavia mother) appeared separately at first, [4] then was combined with "zovi, samo zovi". Various regions of Yugoslavia were added into the lyrics, including those in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
Tamo daleko (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамо далеко; "There, Far Away", "Over There, Far Away" or "There, Afar") is a Serbian folk song which was composed in 1916 to commemorate the Serbian Army's retreat through Albania in World War I and during which it was devastated by hunger, disease and attacks by armed bands before regrouping on the Greek island of Corfu, where many more Serbian ...