"Cântă cucu-n Bucovina" or "Cântă cucu în Bucovina" () is a Romanian folk song, more precisely a doină, composed in 1904 by . The lyrics are original, while the melody is a modified Bukovinian mourning song. Mandicevschi composed it at the request of

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for the 400th anniversary of the death of

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, which was commemorated in Putna (then in

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and now in

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) in the same year. The song is also known as "Cântă cucul, bată-l vina" (), "Bucovină, plai cu flori" (), "Cântec pentru Bucovina" () and "Cântec despre Bucovina" (). Famous singers of the song include ,

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and Valentina Nafornița. The song was sung in 2022 by a children's choir at the Antim Monastery during a meeting between the Georgian ambassador to Romania and the

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bishop in which the latter gave the former the Order of St. Anthim the Iberian. The lyrics of the song, on the version sung by Leșe, are the following:

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* {{Romanian nationalism Romanian patriotic songs 1904 songs Bukovina Romanian folk music Songs in Romanian