Zajdi, zajdi, jasno sonce

"Zajdi, zajdi, jasno sonce"
traditional folk song by Aleksandar Sarievski
Writer(s)	Aleksandar Sarievski
Composer(s)	Aleksandar Sarievski
Language	Macedonian

Zajdi, zajdi, jasno sonce ("Set, Set, O Clear Sun"; Macedonian: Зајди, зајди, јасно сонце) is a newly composed Macedonian folk song written and composed by Aleksandar Sarievski.

The song was written and composed by Macedonian singer-songwriter Aleksandar Sarievski in the style of newly composed folk. Though Sarievski composed the melody, he did acknowledge that the text of Zajdi, zajdi was adapted from another source, saying:

Apart from , the song's lyrics also bear a similarity to another Macedonian folk song (). Motifs from these songs are also frequent in folk songs and oral poems across the Republic of Macedonia,Bulgaria and Serbia. Other lines are also comparable to those from Lyuben Karavelov's collection of folk songs and poems published in 1878.

In 2007, greater public attention was drawn to Zajdi, zajdi after its melody was used for the song "Message for the Queen" from the 300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. In an interview relating to the subsequent dispute, Bulgarian folklorist Nikolay Kaufman stated that formulae analogous to those in Zajdi, zajdi are recurrent in Lyuben Karavelov's collection and claimed they were adapted from it. In the same interview, another prominent Bulgarian folklorist, Georgi Kraev, states that the song belongs to a tradition of Balkan tavern songs.

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