'Sings the Cuckoo in Bukovina') is a Romanian folk song, more precisely a doină, composed in 1904 by Constantin Mandicevschi [de; ru; uk].
Mandicevschi composed it at the request of Spiru Haret for the 400th anniversary of the death of Prince of Moldavia Stephen the Great, which was commemorated in Putna (then in Austria-Hungary and now in Romania) in the same year.
[5] The song was sung in 2022 by a children's choir at the Antim Monastery during a meeting between the Georgian ambassador to Romania Nikoloz Nikolozishvili [ka] and the Romanian Orthodox bishop Varlaam Merticariu [de; pl; ro; ru] in which the latter gave the former the Order of St. Anthim the Iberian.
Au fost duși în altă țară Dar se-ntorc la primăvară Au fost duși în altă țară Dar se-ntorc la primăvară
Înapoi când or veni Tot pe tine te-or iubi Munților cu creasta rară Nu lăsați straja să piară Munților cu creasta rară Nu lăsați straja să piară