"Cântă cucu-n Bucovina" or "Cântă cucu în Bucovina" is a Romanian folk song, more precisely a doină, composed in 1904 by . The lyrics are original, while the melody is a modified Bukovinian mourning song. Mandicevschi composed it at the request of Spiru Haret for the 400th anniversary of the death of Prince of Moldavia Stephen the Great, which was commemorated in Putna (then in Austria-Hungary and now in Romania) in the same year.[1] [2] The song is also known as "Cântă cucul, bată-l vina", "Bucovină, plai cu flori", "Cântec pentru Bucovina" and "Cântec despre Bucovina" .[3]
Famous singers of the song include,[4] Grigore Leșe and Valentina Nafornița.[5] The song was sung in 2022 by a children's choir at the Antim Monastery during a meeting between the Georgian ambassador to Romania and the Romanian Orthodox bishop in which the latter gave the former the Order of St. Anthim the Iberian.[6]
The lyrics of the song, on the version sung by Leșe, are the following:[7]