Phirava daje is a Rom song heard in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Kosovo that tells a charming love story. We learned it from Carol Silverman at balkanalia!, the dance and music camp held near Portland every summer. We play it with a Bo Diddley beat, to which people often do the dance cocek.
(Ph = hard p + h, not f. Kh = hard k + h, not Scots loch.)
Phirava daje
Our source recording isn’t online, but here’s a version sung by Safet Ibrahimi with a slightly different break: