Here’s a great song for New Year’s Eve… or any occasion with glass of wine in hand! No klapa concert is complete without this catchy song. It has a chorus that even foreigners can sing along with – and indeed will probably be singing it all the way home! We first heard this, appropriately enough, at the Hvar Wine Festival, performed by the excellent Klapa Bagulin supported by the assembled happy crowd.
This version by Klapa Kampanel in Primošten – all together now… sing up, sing up!
In vino veritas
Popili smo casu dvije,
Zaplesali ludo, luđe.
Malo što nas tako grije,
Kao pogled zene tuđe
Malo što nas tako smete,
Kao dodir oko struka.
Sad sam zbunjen kao dijete,
Kad me njena takne ruka.
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino vino vino veritas
Popili smo casu dvije,
Koja kap se usput proli,
Malo tko se tako smije,
Kao žena koja voli.
Ja joj kažem tiho, tiše,
Amor zgodi strijelom i nas,
Ne mogu bez tebe više
In vino veritas.
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino vino, vino veritas
And the translation:
Danced madly, wildly.
Little is so warm,
As the look of a woman
Little disturbs us,
As an arm round the waist.
Now I am confused as a child,
At the touch of her hand.
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino, vino, vino veritas.
We drank a glass or two,
A drop is spilt along the way,
Few people smile so,
As a woman in love.
I tell her softly, quietly,
Cupid’s arrow found us too
I cannot live without you
In wine is truth.
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino veritas,
In vino vino vino veritas.
Go Hvar 