Serbia is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central- and Southeastern Europe, covering the southern lowlands of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; its border with Albania is disputed. Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, is among the most populous in Southeastern Europe.
Today the Serbian folk music is both rural (izvorna muzika) and urban (starogradska muzika) and includes a two-beat dance called kolo, which is a circle dance with almost no movement above the waist, accompanied by instrumental music made most often with an accordion, but also with other instruments: frula (traditional kind of a recorder), tamburica, or accordion. The Kolos usually last for about 5-13 minutes.
AJDE JANO
Ajde Jano, kolo da igramo,
ajde Jano, ajde duso, kolo da igramo.
Ajde Jano, konja da prodamo,
ajde Jano, ajde duso, konja da prodamo.
Ajde Jano, kuçu da prodamo,
ajde Jano, ajde duso, kuçu da prodamo.
Da prodamo, samo da igramo,
da prodamo, Jano duso, samo da igramo.
Come on, Jano, let's dance the kolo.
Come on, Jano, let's dance, dance the kolo.
Come on, Jano, let's sell the horse.
Come on, Jano, let's sell, let’s sell the horse.
Come on Jano, let's sell the house.
Come on Jano, let's sell, let’s sell the house.
We'll sell them just so we can dance.
We'll sell them just so we can dance.
BASARA
BELA RADA
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Ide dika sa oranja
Bela Rada sa kopanja.
Hey Rado, bela Rada,
Daj da ljubim lice mlado.
A boy gong home from plowing
Fair Rada from working in the fields.
Hey, Rada, fair Rada,
Let me kiss your young face.
BELOPALANACKA SESTORKA
BISERKA-BOJARKA
BOSARKA
BRE DOVOJCE
ČAČAK
CIGANCICA
CIGANSKI ORIJENT
CICINO KOLO
DAMIROV COCEK
DAVORIKE DAJKE
DJURDJEVICA
ERSKO KOLO
FATIŠE KOLO
FICKO
GOCINO KOLO
GODEČKI ČAČAK
GRAĐANSKO (ALSO CROATIA)
JEDNOSTRANKA
KOLUBARSKI VEZ
KRIVATVORENA
MAKAZICE
METOVNICANKA
MILANOVO KOLO
MORAVSKO KOLO
NEBESKO KOLO
NIŠKA BANJA
OPA ĆUPA
OPŠA
ORIJENT
ORO SE VIJE KRAJ MANASTIRA
PEMBE
PINOSAVKA
POP MARINKO
POPOVICANKA
POSLA RUMENA
PRE PICIOR
PREKID KOLO
RACA
RETKO KOLO
ROMUNKA
RUKAVICE S PRSTIMA
RUMENKA
RUMUNJSKO KOLO
SAJECARKA
ŠANO DUŠO
Sano duso, Sano mori
Otvori mi vrata
Otvori mi, Sano, vrata
Da ti dam dukata.
Oj, le le le le, izgore za tebe
Izgore me, Sano, sree za tebe
Noc li hodi, divna Sano
Ja si tuga vi jem
Ubavinja tvoja, Sano,
Ne aa mi da spijem.
Shana, my sweetheart,
Open the door for me
Open the door, Shana
And I'll give you some ducats.
Oy Lelele, my heart is burning,
My heart is burning, Shana, for you.
Night is coming, beautiful Shana,
I am filled with grief.
Because your beauty, Shana,
Won't let me sleep
SA-SA
SARAJEVKA
SAŠINO KOLO
SAVAMALSKO KOLO
SAVILA SE BELA LOZA
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Savila se bela loza vinova
Uz tarabu vinova.
Todor Todi podvalio
Triput curu poljubio
To ne bese bele loza vinova
Uz tarabu vinova
Vec to bese dvoje mili I dragi
Dvoje mili I dragi.
A pretty grapevine entwined itself
Along a fence, a grape vine.
Todor tricked Toda.
Kissed the girl three times.
It was not a pretty grapevine,
Along a fence, a grape vine.
It was, rather, two lovers,
Two lovers.
SELJANČICA KOLO
ŠESTORKA
ŠESTORKA KRUPNA
SETA
ŠETNJA
SOCEK
SRDIM SE DUŠO
STARA DJURDJEVKA
STARA SAPCANKA
SVRLJIG
SVRLJISKA RUMENKA
SUMADINKA
TASINO
TODORKA
TROJANAC
U ŠEST
UŽIČKA ČARLAMA
VELIKO BACKO KOLO
VLAJNA
ZAPLANJSKI ČAČAK
ZIKINO KOLO