Evo zore, evo dana

"Evo zore, evo dana" (English translation: Here comes the dawn, here comes the day) is a Croatian pro-ustaše song written after the Black Legion's battle for Kupres in the summer of 1942.

The Black Legion fought off the attack by the Montenegrin Chetniks of Pavle Đurišić and Tito's Partisans. The name refers to the time between the dawn and full daylight when the Black Legion (Crna Legija) surprised both forces with a counterattack that drove them out of Kupres and its surrounding area. Its lyrical origins are unclear, but some unsourced claims state that it was written by an anonymous poet from Herzegovina. However, other sources contend that its authors were a small group of the Ustaše soldiers of Jure Francetić and Rafael Boban who sang the lyrics to the melody of the song "Oj kupreško Ravno poljce" (Oh Kupresian flat field), which is also about the Kupres battle. The lyrics, translated to English, are as follows:

There are more than 40 verses in the original song, but only seven or eight are usually sung.

The seven or eight commonly known verses are these:

Other verses include these:

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