Kad zavonja proculice
Jasna Zlokic · Other Songs - Jasna Zlokic
ja se sitin skoja moga
i svih onih mladih dana
iz ditinjstva davna svoga
Lipa li su ona jutra
i vonj zemlje posli dazja
kad zavonja cmilj i smrska
i svo cvice naseg kraja
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Svi ti vonji mi dohodu
kad san largo od svog kraja
niko ne zna da ditinjstvo
za tu sricu puno valja
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Homesickness carried on a scent
In “Kad zavonja proculice” (“When the Wallflowers Scent the Air”), a smell carries the narrator back to childhood and home. Jasna Zlokić’s lyric moves through rain-darkened earth, local plants and remembered mornings, showing how the sensory details of a place can summon a whole lost world. The song’s central feeling is homesickness: distance makes the familiar landscape more precious.
The lyric is sung in a distinctly Dalmatian dialect, anchoring the song in the island and coastal culture closely associated with Zlokić’s music. The track is preserved in her catalogue and appears on the later *50 Originalnih Pjesama* collection, but that compilation date should not be mistaken for the song’s original release. Its regional pop character comes through most clearly in the language and its affectionate attention to local flora and weather.
No confirmed original release year or chart position is readily documented. “Kad zavonja proculice” is less a conventional romance song than a musical portrait of belonging, using scent as a path from the present back to a childhood landscape. Its specificity gives the nostalgia its force: this is not an abstract homeland, but a place the narrator can still smell.