Opet je predamnom Boka
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pod suncem augusta sja
i u njoj kao dva oka
peraska otoka dva
Kuda to otoci strijeme
dok hrlim ka njima ja
usnule u svoje vrijeme
Boka ih poznaje sva
I evo sada se bude
iz toga davnoga sna
i sutke sred mora cude
sto im se legenda zna
Jedan je blistav i beo
peraskih gradjana dar
nad njim je slobode veo
pomorskih bitaka zal
A drugi od kama siva
jos uvijek beskrajno sne
u sjenci cempresa skriva
tragicne ljubavi sve
Djevojku perasku lijepu
vojnik je volio mlad
za ljubav njihovu slijepu
znao je rodni joj grad
Al' vojnik nesretan bio
s otoka ubio nju
pod metkom svojim se svio
da leze zajedno tu
Placite valovi plavi
ta divna otoka dva
u njih se sloboda slavi
i vjernost ljubavi zna
Opet je predamnom Boka
Before the hook settles in, “Opet je predamnom Boka” establishes the song’s particular point of view. It is worth noticing how the lyric controls scale: an intimate worry, a public event or a small domestic scene becomes large enough to carry the refrain. The recurring line then returns with a changed emphasis. That movement gives the writing its shape and helps explain why its central image is more memorable than a simple summary of the plot.
The klapa tradition offers a useful context for this language of place, memory and shared feeling. The text draws on coastal vocabulary and images of sea, stone, wind or home, making landscape part of the emotional argument rather than a postcard backdrop. Without claiming undocumented details about this recording’s arrangement, the lyric itself shows how a communal regional idiom can hold private longing and collective belonging together. There is no need to treat every first-person line as autobiography. The lyric constructs a speaker through what they repeat, what they exaggerate and which details they choose to disclose. That distinction is especially useful here: performance and feeling can coexist without being identical. The song’s unresolved edges are not a flaw to explain away; they are part of its expressive design.
No dependable song-specific review or chart record surfaced in the sources checked, and no exact release listing was strong enough to attribute confidently. This leaves an incomplete reception history, not a verdict on the song’s reach. Rather than repeat an unverified date or attach a similar track’s statistics, the blurb stays with what can be read in the text.