The song was made to commemorate the soldiers fighting against the Yugoslav People's Army in the town of Čavoglave, which is the birthplace of Perković.

[7] The first line of the song is "Za dom spremni", a historical greeting notoriously used by the Croatian government during the time of the Independent State of Croatia.

The High Misdemeanour Court of Croatia originally found the line to be a criminal offense, which risked a ban of the song.

[6][11] This controversy was further strengthened by the fact that Croatian association football fans were using the slogan and singing Bojna Čavoglave, along with "Moja Hercegovina", a song by Herzegovinian-Croat singer Mate Bulić, at the 2023 UEFA Nations League final.

[3] Other fans, who were on a flight to Zagreb from the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Doha, Qatar, also started singing "Bojna Čavoglave" on the plane.

U Zagori na izvoru rijeke Čikole 𝄆 Stala braća da obrane naše domove!

Čujte srpski dobrovoljci, bando četnici 𝄆 Stići će vas naša ruka i u Srbiji!

𝄇 Slušajte sad poruku od Svetog Ilije: 𝄆 Nećete u Čavoglave, niste ni prije!

𝄇 Oj Hrvati, braćo mila iz Čavoglava 𝄆 Hrvatska vam zaboravit neće nikada!