"Dafino vino crveno" (

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/ bg, Дафино вино црвено/цървено; English translation: Red Wine Dafina) is а folk song from the region of Macedonia. It is about a girl called Dafina and her boyfriend.

Explanation of the lyrics

According to the lyrics of the song, some hajduci stole the coat of Dafina's boyfriend while he had fallen asleep on the mountain '' Karakamen'' (situated nowadays in

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) and then sold it for wine and

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. The song was noted in 1908 by the Bulgarian composer

Dobri Hristov Dobri Hristov ( bg, Добри Христов; 14 December 1875 – 23 January 1941) was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra. Hristov w ...

. Dobri Hristov noted it from Kiril Hristov from

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, father of the famous Bulgarian opera singer Boris Hristov. Both Kiril and Dobri worked at that time as high school teachers in

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. In 1931 the Macedonian Scientific Institute published the book "66 Folk Songs of the

Macedonian Bulgarians Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians ( bg, македонци or македонски българи), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of eth ...

". All the songs were selected and noted by Hristov and this song was among them.Македонски научен институт - "66 Народни Песни на Македонските Българи, София, 1931 годин�
Библиотека и Издателство "Струмски".
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Interpretations of the song

This song has been performed by many

folk singers such as: Nikola Badev, Goce Arnaudov, and Ibush Ibraimovski. There also exist non-folk versions of the song, such as the one by Nigel Kennedy, Karolina, Garo and the Tavitjan brothers; this cover was made as a part of the project "''Makedonija zasekogash''" in which various Macedonian pop stars perform several traditional folk songs.

References

External links

Dobri Hristov - "Daphino Wine", performs Bulgarian Choral Chapel "Svetoslav Obretenov"

Dafino vino crveno performed by Karolina

Dafino vino crveno performed by Virtuelen Hor
Macedonian folk songs Year of song unknown Songwriter unknown Bulgarian folk songs {{Folk-song-stub