Čerešna (CHEH-resh-nah) meaning “Black Cherry” was learned by Dick Oakes from Rubi Vučeta, a prominent Balkan dance leader and teacher in the 1950s and 1960s in the Los Angeles, California, area. It is a Macedonian wedding dance. The song tells about a cherry tree that is pulled from its roots (“the daughter is separated from her mother”). The daughter, who asks her mother’s forgiveness, is seprarated from her, and will now obey her in-laws.
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