Tajci - Suza

Suza za zagorske brege
Words: Ana Bešenić
Music: Zvonko Špišić
(Transl: A Tear for the Hills of Zagoria)

Tajci performed this emotional tribute to her late father during a concert in Chicago on December 6, 2006.

English Translation:

On that scented morning,
whilst the hills were still sleeping
and the Moon was reluctant to set
I silently opened the rickety gate
and put a small load on my back

My old mother strode behind me,
silently looking down
She couldn't comprehend what I was pondering in my soul
And why I didn't utter a word since yesterday
There was too much to say to each other, and we have forgotten it all.

When we passed the last house,
I was suddenly in tears.
So that my old mother couldn't see it,
I hid my face with my hands

Everywhere around me, the scent of roses,
the May was blossoming
And I didn't once look behind me,
too sorrowful to say goodbye to my home.
I only made a pledge to the hills, that I will come back some day.

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