Uploaded February 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's an old Macedonian song for a change. It's a favorite around the house, especially at bed time, despite the fact that the words are pretty heavy: Something like "Set down, set down clear sun, and you clear moon run away and drown yourself. Sadness forest/mountain, sadness sister, let us mourn together, you for your leaves and I for my youth. Your leaves mountain/sister will come back- my youth never will return."
My apologies for the mixed pronunciation- mostly New England with bits of ex-Jugoslavia to the north and west (I can't help singing "sunce" instead of "sonce" etc).
Filmed by Nate Wheeler.
Here's an old Macedonian song for a change. It's a favorite around the house, especially at bed time, despite the fact that the words are pretty heavy: Something like "Set down, set down clear sun, and you clear moon run away and drown yourself. Sadness forest/mountain, sadness sister, let us mourn together, you for your leaves and I for my youth. Your leaves mountain/sister will come back- my youth never will return."
My apologies for the mixed pronunciation- mostly New England with bits of ex-Jugoslavia to the north and west (I can't help singing "sunce" instead of "sonce" etc).
Filmed by Nate Wheeler.
