One of the most widely-sung Slavic songs is “Sto Mi E Milo,” a Macedonian song about a man who imagines himself as the owner of a shop in the town of Struga. When we sing “Sto Mi E Milo” in class to help us learn Eastern European additive rhythms we stop with the story there, but the song’s full translation tells us why he wants to have a shop: “to sit by the door and watch the young girls of Struga go by.”
